War Dogs (2016)
Loosely based on a true story chronicled in a 2011 “Rolling Stone” article and subsequent 2015 book (“Arms and the Dudes”) by Guy Lawson, War Dogs follows two lifelong friends, struggling massage therapist and bedsheet salesman...
Category: Comedy
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
Set in New York during the mid 1940s, Stephen Frears’ (Philomena, The Queen) film about a real-life, upper-class heiress with a zest for music and charitable works gives Meryl Streep (Ricki and the Flash, Into the...
Suicide Squad (2016)
Suicide Squad is the third official film in the DC Extended Universe, a bit tangential to what’s come before, save for a couple of Superman/Aquaman references, as well as the appearance of Bruce Wayne/Batman (Affleck, Gone...
Bad Moms (2016)
Bad Moms is one of the more pushy raunchy comedies you’ll likely come across, a film so reliant on using vulgarity as a crutch it has characters drop F-bombs at their children’s schools and during...
Ghostbusters (2016)
Kristen Wiig (Zoolander 2, The Martian) plays Erin Gilbert, an ambitious associate professor seeking tenure at New York’s prestigious Columbia University. Erin ends up losing that when a book she published years ago on ghosts...
The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
Upon first glance, The Secret Life of Pets would seem like a take-off on Pixar’s Toy Story series, using pets instead of toys to show the world of individual hobbies and collective adventures the characters would go in...
The BFG (2016)
Set in London, a clever but unhappy, insomnia-afflicted orphan named Sophie (Barnhill, “4 O’Clock Club”) wakes up in the middle of the evening and sees something outside the orphanage window. Investigating, she discovers a...
Central Intelligence (2016)
Central Intelligence is the kind of film I find hard to grade, as it is one that is consummately watchable, and yet it also isn’t really what I would call a truly good movie. I...
Me Before You (2016)
Sweet but predictable, Me Before You will likely please those among the target demographic that predominantly consists of women looking to smile and cry, not minding that most of the emotional beats are manipulated and manufactured...
Now You See Me 2 (2016)
The makers of the deliberately vapid and highly superfluous Now You See Me 2 have chosen to fully embrace the dumbness of its premise, going full bore into just trying to make it ridiculous to the...