U.S. Release Date: 2016-07-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: James DeMonaco
Cast: Frank Grillo, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mykelti Williamson, Edwin Hodge, Joseph Julian Soria, Betty Gabriel, Kyle Secor
Follows the mandate of delivering more of the same to keep the franchise going and attempts to expand the canvas aren’t successful.
U.S. Release Date: 2016-06-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Science Fiction/Action
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Liam Hemsworth, Brent Spiner, Judd Hirsch, William Fichtner, Sela Ward, Maika Monroe, Bill Pullman, Jessie T. Usher, Jeff Goldblum, Charlotte Gainsbourg
This is a clear example of a story being thrown together to serve the special effects, not the other way around.
U.S. Release Date: 2016-06-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Duncan Jones
Cast: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Clancy Brown, Daniel Wu, Anna Galvin, Burkely Duffield
As a commercial for the game, "Warcraft" works and maybe that’s the yardstick of success against which this film should be measured.
U.S. Release Date: 2016-06-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Jon M. Chu
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo, Dave Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Morgan Freeman, Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Caine
Whether or not audiences pull a disappearing act, "Now You See Me 2" doesn’t bring magic back to the multiplex.
U.S. Release Date: 2016-05-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Sexual Content, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Luca Guardagnino
Cast: Matthias Schoenarts, Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson
Despite a strong cast, gorgeous cinematography, and a suffocating sense of sexual tension, this movie takes far too long to get off the ground.
U.S. Release Date: 2016-04-29
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Kevin Munroe, Jericca Cleland
Cast: James Arnold Taylor, David Kaye, Jim Ward, Rosario Dawson, Paul Giamatti, John Goodman, Dean Redman, Armin Shimerman, Bella Thorne, Sylvester Stallone
This is, in effect, a 90-minute commercial, and it’s about as entertaining as one might reasonably expect from such a thing.
U.S. Release Date: 2016-04-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Jessica Chastain, Emily Blunt, Nick Frost, Rob Brydon, Sheridan Smith, Alexandra Roach
By cramming far too much material into 114 minutes, "The Huntsman: Winter’s War" feels rushed and incomplete.
U.S. Release Date: 2016-03-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Science Fiction/Adventure
Director: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Zoe Kravitz, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Naomi Watts, Jeff Daniels, Octavia Spencer
"Allegiant" exemplifies what happens when a book or movie exists solely for the purposes of placating fans and maintaining a revenue stream.
U.S. Release Date: 2016-02-26
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Alex Proyas
Cast: Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Elodie Yung, Brenton Thwaites, Courtney Eaton, Geoffrey Rush, Rufus Sewell, Chadwick Boseman
"Gods of Egypt" is often sloppy and fails in many ways but the cheesy momentum is hard to resist.
U.S. Release Date: 2016-02-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ben Stiller
Cast: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Penelope Cruz, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Cyrus Arnold, Kyle Mooney
There’s not a lot here, making one suspect the first "Zoolander" would have been better left as a stand-alone cult classic.