U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Torture, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Michael Cuesta
Cast: Dylan O’Brian, Michael Keaton, Taylor Kitsch, Sanaa Lathan, Shiva Negar, David Suchet, Charlotte Vega
"American Assassin" is as generic an espionage thriller as you’re likely to find.
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brian Gleeson, Domhnall Gleeson, Kristen Wiig
With "mother!", director Darren Aronofsky seems determined to baffle, infuriate, and divide his audience.
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, War Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: Danny Strong
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, Sarah Paulson, Zoey Deutch, Victor Garber, Hope Davis, Lucy Boynton
"Rebel in the Rye" falls into the trap that ensnares many a bio-pic: trying to present too broad a chronology in too limited a time.
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Damian Harris
Cast: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Patrick Stewart, Minnie Driver, Grace Van Patten, Noah Emmerich, Peter Facinelli, Jack Davenport, Yael Stone
There’s always a place for good acting, clever dialogue, and a sense of humor, even if the narrative teeters between incidental and irrelevant.
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director: Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Michael Sheen, Candice Bergen, Nat Wolff, Pico Alexander, Jon Rudnitsky, Lola Flanery, Eden Grace Redfield
Artificial and reeking of white privilege, this is the kind of movie that causes people to mutter things about “entitlement” when speaking of the “Hollywood elite.”
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: Andy Muschietti
Cast: Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Bill Skarsgard, Nicholas Hamilton
Stephen King fans can rejoice that Hollywood has done justice to one of the author’s scary books.
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Justin Chadwick
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Jack O’Connell, Holliday Grainger, Christoph Waltz, Judi Dench, Zach Galifianakis, Cara Delevingne, Tom Hollander
Lifeless, contrived, and sleep-inducing, it’s an example of how badly wrong a film can go.
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Sports
Director: Jay Baruchel
Cast: Seann William Scott, Alison Pill, Marc-Andre Grondin, Liev Schreiber, Wyatt Russell, Kim Coates, Elisha Cuthbert, Jay Baruchel, Callum Keith Rennie
"Goon: Last of the Enforcers" is a waste of time, money, talent, and the goodwill of viewers who appreciated the earlier picture.
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy
Director: William H. Macy
Cast: Alexandra Daddario, Kate Upton, Matt Barr, Matt Jones, Kal Penn, Rob Corddry, Molly Shannon
"The Layover" is an appalling movie – an unpleasant, unwatchable example of why people no longer love romantic comedies.
U.S. Release Date: 2017-08-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Ben Safdie, Josh Safdie
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Ben Safdie, Buddy Duress, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barkhad Abdi, Taliah Webster
Every aspect of the production was selected with the goal of keeping the audience in a state of escalating suspense.