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This well-made, excruciating film will likely trigger PTSD in anyone ever emotionally affected by terrorism. That is, all of us.

This broad-reaching document of the AIDS crisis works best when it focuses on the intimate stories of San Francisco General Hospital's Ward 5B.

Pfffft. With Dark Phoenix, the X-Men saga as movie audiences have come to know it closes out with a disappointing whimper instead of any kind of grand last hurrah.

This perfectly adequate sequel to 2016’s The Secret Life of Pets isn’t amazing but isn’t all that bad, either. It amplifies some of the best components of the first film – namely, the adorable animal behaviors of cats and dogs (and birds and rabbits and the like) that will no doubt make pet owners in the audience laugh out loud (like I did) – but suffers a bit from a scattered story that sends its furry heroes off in different directions.

Julianne Moore shines in this slice-of-life comedy about a middle-aged-woman who is (gasp!) comfortable in her own skin.

Though it has all the trappings of the rom-com formula, Crazy Rich Asians somehow seems fresh for the simple fact that the cast is all Asian. It's a unicorn (hopefully the first of a herd) in American cinema.