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: 2016-04-29
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Kevin Munroe, Jericca Cleland
Cast: James Arnold Taylor, Bella Thorne, Armin Shimerman, Dean Redman, John Goodman, Paul Giamatti, Rosario Dawson, Jim Ward, David Kaye, 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: 2016-08-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: David Ayer
Cast: Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Cara Delevigne, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Karen Fukuhara, Ben Affleck
Gets props for kinetic energy and a couple of bravura performances but pretty much everything else is either mediocre or substandard.
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: 2016-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Hamburg
Cast: Bryan Cranston, James Franco, Zoey Deutch, Megan Mullally, Griffin Gluck, Keegan-Michael Key
"Why Him?" contains its share of effective humor but suffers from malaises that infect many modern comedies.
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.