U.S. Release Date: 2022-07-01
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Romance/Drama
Director: Emma Holly Jones
Cast: Freida Pinto, Zawe Ashton, Sope Dirisu, Theo James, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Naoko Mori, Ashley Park
Genre fans may perceive it as good enough to scratch an itch but no matter how well it incorporates the Jane Austen tropes, it’s hard to see this as more than obligatory and unnecessary.
U.S. Release Date: 2022-06-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: Patrick Hughes
Cast: Kevin Hart, Woody Harrelson, Kaley Cuoco, Ellen Barkin, Jasmine Matthews
Derivative and forgettable; fitfully entertaining but ultimately lacking.
U.S. Release Date: 2022-05-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Cast: Owen Teague, Haley Lu Richardson, Gilbert Owuor, Kimberly Guerrero
An intimate story of tragedy and reconnection that is no less riveting than the terrain where it transpires.
U.S. Release Date: 2022-05-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Horror/Science Fiction
Director: Alex Garland
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Paapa Essiedu, Gayle Rankin, Zak Rothera-Oxley
About two-thirds of a creepy, unsettling story that comes unglued in the final 30 minutes.
U.S. Release Date: 2022-04-29
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Liam Neeson, Guy Pearce, Harold Torres, Monica Bellucci, Ray Stevenson, Taj Atwal, Antonio Jaramillo, Lee Boardman
What initially looks like “just another opportunity for Neeson to kick ass” turns into something less conventional.
U.S. Release Date: 2022-04-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Horror
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Cast: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Al Madrigal, Michael Keaton
The kind of bland, by-the-numbers origin story that shows comic book movies at their least innovative.
U.S. Release Date: 2022-03-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Eva Husson
Cast: Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Olivia Colman, Glenda Jackson, Emma, Sope Dirisu
Beautifully filmed and emotionally on-target when confined to 1924, it loses its way once unmoored in time and left adrift on the currents of the years to come.
U.S. Release Date: 2022-03-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: Mariama Diallo
Cast: Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, Amber Gray, Ella Hunt, Talia Ryder, Talia Balsam, Bruce Altman
The movie tries to use the supernatural horror aspects to amplify the racial ones but this is where "Master" loses its way.
U.S. Release Date: 2022-02-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director: Kat Coiro
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Maluma, John Bradley, Sarah Silverman, Chloe Coleman
Not good enough to transcend the limitations of the genre but it’s a passably enjoyable throwback to the heyday of rom-coms.
U.S. Release Date: 2022-02-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Disaster Images)
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Pena, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu, Donald Sutherland, Eme Ikwuakor
There’s nothing worthwhile here; the landscape of wretched banality offers only wasted time and a sense of despair.