Christian Hamaker

Feels familiar at times in prompting a heroine to confront her parents' failings, but The Glass Castle also acknowledges an uncomfortable,...

How do you make actors as charismatic as Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba seem disposable and uninteresting? Director Nikolaj Arcel and a trio of...

The co-director of one of the most stylishly violent action movies of recent years and the star of another contender for that honor combine for a...

Visually spectacular but dramatically incoherent, Valerian commits one of the worst cinematic sins: a story so convoluted that the film, filled...

The hardest films to pull off aren't works that are completely original, but those that take familiar scenarios and archetypes and make us feel...

Defying easy genre categorization, The Book of Henry is about a budding kid genius who's smarter than his mom. Or is it a medical mystery? A TV...

Neither the pick of the litter nor the runt, Megan Leavey, about a Marine and her dog, feels closer to a formulaic feel-good Hollywood story than...

One of the stronger entries in the Alien franchise, Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant spends an hour building characters and suspense before...

Structurally choppy and overall rather unpleasant, The Dinner takes a potent problem—how far will parents go to protect their children?—and...

A consciousness-raiser about the extermination of Armenians at the outset of World War I, The Promise is a noble effort that has some moving...

The eighth film in the Fast and the Furious franchise keeps the series on cruise control, for better or worse. This latest entry should satisfy...

Its pleasures are mild, but the latest Smurfs movie—the third film in the franchise—aims to entertain younger viewers without torturing older kids...

The Zookeeper's Wife extols the actions of a husband-and-wife zookeeping team who use their zoo as a way station for Jews during World War II. But...

The monster movie tropes might feel familiar at times, but Life flirts with audience "alien"-ation in ways that are surprising, even shocking,...

Some furniture is sturdy, built to last. Cheap furniture is designed for the short term until something more substantial comes along. The...

Raises some interesting ideas about trust, sacrifice and purpose, but not even an international cast led by Matt Damon can compensate for an...

The Space Between Us is an intermittently stirring look at different types of parenthood as seen through the eyes of an orphaned boy born and...

Christian viewers might struggle with the concept of this gentle family film built around the notion that a dog can die repeatedly and be...