Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
NEW YORK (CNS) -- All creatures great and small, including some long-dead humans, spring to life when the sun goes down in "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb" (Fox), the third film in [...]
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
NEW YORK (CNS) -- With "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies" (Warner Bros.), director Peter Jackson's trilogy of films based on Catholic writer J.R.R. Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel "The Hobbit, or There and [...]
Exodus: Gods and Kings
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Time was when the biblical extravaganza was a Hollywood staple.In fact, from the silent era through the mid-1960s, it seemed a safe bet that selected slices of the best-selling volume of [...]
The Pyramid
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Cross "The Mummy" with "Alien" and you get "The Pyramid" (Fox), a schlock horror film about scary things that go bump in the Egyptian night.Gregory Levasseur, in his directorial debut, adopts [...]
The Theory of Everything
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Cosmology and metaphysics, both challenging enough as academic topics, don't blend well into an autobiographical film. That's the lesson of "The Theory of Everything" (Focus).With a script by Andrew McCarten -- [...]
Horrible Bosses 2
NEW YORK (CNS) -- In the 2011 original to which "Horrible Bosses 2" (Warner Bros.) serves as a follow-up, a trio of bunglers set out to murder the workplace superiors who were making their lives [...]
Penguins of Madagascar
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The holiday season turns out to be the time for the "Penguins of Madagascar" (Fox) to come to the fore -- and into their own.These supporting characters from previous movies in [...]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Positive values, including altruism, are highlighted in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1" (Lionsgate). Together with the absence from the film of most problematic content -- a good deal of stylized [...]
Dumb and Dumber To
NEW YORK (CNS) -- We have it on the authority of Forrest Gump that stupid is as stupid does. And so it proves with the broad comedy sequel "Dumb and Dumber To" (Universal).Its tiresome dopiness, [...]
Beyond the Lights
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Though obviously well-intended, the romantic drama "Beyond the Lights" (Relativity) includes elements that make it problematic even for grown viewers.In large part, that's a result of the milieu in which the [...]
St. Vincent
NEW YORK (CNS) -- An unlikely baby sitter also serves as an unusual image of sanctity in the fundamentally endearing drama "St. Vincent" (Weinstein).While writer-director Ted Melfi's feature debut has a broadly appealing message, aspects [...]