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Melania

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

104 min | PG | January 30, 2026 | Amazon MGM Studios

A vanity project that mistakes access for insight. The most revealing thing about it is that no one in Trump’s orbit had the courage to say this was a bad idea.

Five Nights at Freddy's 2

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

104 min | PG-13 | December 5, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Emma Tammi returns to Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza with a sequel that drowns in convoluted mythology and forgotten character. The animatronics look great. Everything else is a mess.

Snow White

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

109 min | PG | March 21, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Disney remakes Snow White with CGI dwarfs and flattened fairytale logic. The modernization rings hollow. The performances feel constrained. The whole enterprise misses the point.

Kraven the Hunter

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

127 min | R | December 13, 2024 | Sony Pictures

Sony’s Spider-Man Universe dies the death it deserved. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays a Marvel villain nobody asked to see as a hero. J.C. Chandor deserves better. Everyone deserves better.

Borderlands

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

102 min | PG-13 | August 9, 2024 | Lionsgate

Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black, and Kevin Hart star in a video game adaptation that wastes every single one of them. Eli Roth directs. Nobody survives.

Madame Web

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

116 min | PG-13 | February 14, 2024 | Sony Pictures

Sony scrapes the bottom of the Spider-Man IP barrel and finds Madame Web. Dakota Johnson looks like she wants to be anywhere else. So does the audience.

The Shift

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

113 min | PG-13 | December 1, 2023 | Angel Studios

A doctor named Kevin Garner meets a mysterious stranger who can move people between parallel worlds. He refuses to serve, so the Benefactor strands him in a bleak alternate reality and dares him to break. The Book of Job gets a multiverse and loses its point.

Five Nights at Freddy's

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

110 min | PG-13 | October 27, 2023 | Universal Pictures

Mike Schmidt needs a job and takes the worst one available. He signs on as night guard at an abandoned pizza place where the animatronic mascots get up and walk around after closing. The robots are scarier than anything the script does with them.

Dear David

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

94 min | R | October 13, 2023 | Lionsgate

An illustrator dreams of a dead boy with a crushed skull who climbs one stair closer to his bedroom every night. He posts the haunting online and watches it go viral. The thread was scarier than the movie.

The Exorcist: Believer

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

111 min | R | October 6, 2023 | Universal Pictures

Two girls vanish in the woods and return three days later wrong. A single father drags a houseful of strangers and one familiar face into the work of casting it out. The premise borrows the bones of a masterpiece and finds nothing to put inside them.

The Re-Education of Molly Singer

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

120 min | R | September 29, 2023 | Lionsgate

Molly Singer is a college dropout whose lawyer father pays her to go back to school and turn his nervous teenage intern into a party animal. The premise promises chaos and a little heart. It delivers a montage you have already seen.

Expend4bles

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

103 min | R | September 22, 2023 | Lionsgate

A mercenary crew chases a stolen nuclear payload across the South China Sea while Barney Ross and Lee Christmas trade insults between firefights. The franchise reloads with a new face behind the camera and a roster of fresh muscle. The result aims for the gut and hits nothing.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

92 min | PG-13 | September 8, 2023 | Focus Features

Toula and the Portokalos clan haul their loud, loving chaos back to Greece for a family reunion in her late father’s village. Nia Vardalos writes, directs, and stars in a threequel that mistakes scenery for jokes. The wedding is in the title, but the movie forgot to pack everything else.

What Comes Around

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

83 min | NR | August 4, 2023 | IFC Films

A teenage girl falls for an older man. Then her mother meets him and recognizes something she would rather forget. The film keeps hinting at a darker truth and never has the nerve to commit to it.

Sound of Freedom

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

131 min | PG-13 | July 4, 2023 | Angel Studios

A federal agent spends his career catching the men who buy children and never the children themselves. So he quits to go get them back. Sound of Freedom is a real rescue dressed up as a holy war.

About My Father

Fri, 26 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

90 min | PG-13 | May 26, 2023 | Lionsgate

Sebastian Maniscalco brings his immigrant hairdresser father to a holiday weekend with his girlfriend’s old-money WASP family. Robert De Niro plays the dad as a man who refuses to be impressed by any of it. The clash writes itself, which turns out to be the problem.

The Machine

Fri, 26 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

112 min | R | May 26, 2023 | Screen Gems

Bert Kreischer turns his most famous drunken bar story into a feature film. The Russian mafia he robbed on a college train trip across Russia shows up two decades later to collect, and they bring his estranged father along for the trip. The movie mistakes a five-minute anecdote for a plot.

Robots

Fri, 19 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

93 min | R | May 19, 2023 | Neon

Charles sends a robot double out on his dates so he can skip to the sex. Elaine runs the same scam on rich men she wants to rob. Their machines fall in love and bolt, and the humans left behind turn out to be the least convincing things on screen.

Fool's Paradise

Fri, 12 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

98 min | R | May 12, 2023 | Roadside Attractions

Latte Pronto leaves a mental institution mute and blank, and Hollywood mistakes his emptiness for genius. He becomes a movie star without saying a word or wanting any of it. Charlie Day spends a whole film telling a joke that he forgets to write a punchline for.

Knights of the Zodiac

Fri, 12 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

112 min | PG-13 | May 12, 2023 | Stage 6 Films

A street brawler learns a goddess lives inside a teenage girl and that he is destined to protect her. Tomek Bagiński turns one of anime’s foundational sagas into a generic superhero origin. The armor gleams and the movie is hollow.

Love Again

Fri, 05 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

104 min | PG-13 | May 5, 2023 | Screen Gems

Mira Ray loses her fiancé and keeps texting his old number to feel close to him. The number now belongs to a stranger who reads every message and decides she is the love of his life. Céline Dion shows up to bless the whole arrangement, because nothing says romance like a man falling for your grief behind your back.

Life Upside Down

Fri, 27 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

88 min | NR | January 27, 2023 | IFC Films

Three couples ride out the early lockdown trapped in their own neuroses and their own expensive homes. Cecilia Miniucchi wants a satire about the privileged coming apart in isolation. The isolation is the only thing that lands.

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

97 min | R | November 18, 2022 | Lionsgate

Ferruccio Lamborghini builds tractors, gets insulted by Enzo Ferrari, and decides to beat him at his own game. Frank Grillo and Gabriel Byrne suit up to play Italian icons across decades of ambition and grudges. The accents arrive long before the drama does.

Prey for the Devil

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

93 min | PG-13 | October 28, 2022 | Lionsgate

A novice nun trains to become the first female exorcist while a demon she once knew sets its sights on her. The Catholic Church gets a fresh coat of paint and the same haunted patient strapped to the same bed. Faith moves mountains. It cannot move this script.

Wire Room

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

97 min | R | September 2, 2022 | Lionsgate

A wiretap surveillance agent watches a high-stakes drug operation from a dark room full of monitors. Then the suspects find out he is listening, and the room becomes a trap. The premise promises a thriller and delivers a screensaver.

Hot Seat

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

99 min | R | July 1, 2022 | Lionsgate

A bomb sits under a hacker’s chair. He has to break into bank accounts and dodge a bullheaded ex-cop while a voice in his ear counts down. The chair is the only thing in this movie holding tension.

Jurassic World Dominion

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

147 min | PG-13 | June 10, 2022 | Universal Pictures

Dinosaurs roam the open world for the first time. The original trio reunites to stop a biotech firm harvesting prehistoric DNA. The dinosaurs end up the least interesting thing in their own movie.

Firestarter

Fri, 13 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

94 min | R | May 13, 2022 | Universal Pictures

Andy can push thoughts into your head. His daughter Charlie can burn down a building by looking at it. A government agency wants the girl, and the movie wants to be over.

Morbius

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

105 min | PG-13 | April 1, 2022 | Columbia Pictures

A brilliant scientist with a fatal blood disease cures himself by splicing in bat DNA. The cure turns him into a vampire with a thirst he cannot control. The film has even less control than he does.

Blacklight

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

104 min | PG-13 | February 11, 2022 | Open Road Films

Liam Neeson plays a government fixer who cleans up the FBI’s messes and starts to suspect his own agency is the mess. A reporter, a whistleblower, and a deep-state conspiracy stand between him and retirement. The plot has all the parts and none of the pulse.

Redeeming Love

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

134 min | PG-13 | January 21, 2022 | Universal Pictures

Redeeming Love drops a Christian retelling of the Book of Hosea into the California Gold Rush. A farmer buys a prostitute out of a brothel, decides God wants him to marry her, and refuses to take no for an answer. The movie calls this grace.

Shattered

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

92 min | R | January 14, 2022 | Lionsgate

A recently separated tech millionaire meets a beautiful younger woman and lets her into his life. Then she lets her friends in too. The trap is obvious from the first frame, and the movie never finds a reason to surprise you.

Home Sweet Home Alone

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

93 min | PG | November 12, 2021 | 20th Century Studios

A kid gets left behind at Christmas while two desperate adults plot to break into his house. Disney resurrects a corpse and props it up with the name of a man who died in 2009. The traps still work. Nothing else does.

The Addams Family 2

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

93 min | PG | October 1, 2021 | United Artists Releasing

Gomez packs the family into a black RV and drags them across America to stop the kids from growing up. The road-trip comedy runs the most morbid family in fiction through every cheerful vacation cliche available. The premise is a costume, and the movie never finds the body underneath.

Dear Evan Hansen

Fri, 24 Sep 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

137 min | PG-13 | September 24, 2021 | Universal Pictures

Evan Hansen, an anxious high schooler, lets a grieving family believe he was their dead son’s closest friend. The lie grows into a viral movement built on a kid who is no longer alive to deny it. The movie wants you to forgive him and never figures out why you should.

Lady of the Manor

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

96 min | R | September 17, 2021 | Lionsgate

A stoner cons her way into a costumed tour-guide gig at a historic manor and gets haunted by the aristocrat she is paid to impersonate. The ghost wants to teach her to be a proper lady. The movie just wants to make her fart.

My Son

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

95 min | R | September 15, 2021 | Peacock

James McAvoy plays a father who races back to the Scottish Highlands when his young son vanishes from a campsite. He improvises every line, handed no script and only the broad shape of the plot. The experiment throws off more heat than the movie wrapped around it.

Catch the Bullet

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

89 min | R | September 10, 2021 | Lionsgate

An aging gunslinger rides with a U.S. marshal and a deputy to hunt the outlaws who shot his son and took his land. Three men, one trail, one revenge plot you have seen a hundred times. The horses give the best performances.

Demonic

Fri, 20 Aug 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

104 min | R | August 20, 2021 | IFC Midnight

Neill Blomkamp scans actors into a digital purgatory and sends a woman into her comatose mother’s mind to confront the demon riding inside her. The technology is the most interesting thing in the room. That is the problem.

Habit

Fri, 20 Aug 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

81 min | R | August 20, 2021 | Lionsgate

Bella Thorne plays a party girl who scams her way into a Jesus-themed money laundering scheme and decides the only way out is to become the next coming of Christ. Janell Shirtcliff stages it as a feature-length perfume ad with a body count. The clothes are the only thing in focus.

Midnight in the Switchgrass

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

99 min | R | July 23, 2021 | Lionsgate

Two detectives hunting a Florida serial killer cross paths with an undercover agent working a trafficking ring. The pieces of a real thriller are here. The movie never bothers to assemble them.

Die in a Gunfight

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

92 min | R | July 16, 2021 | Lionsgate

Ben and Mary are star-crossed lovers from feuding families, and the movie reminds you of that with onscreen text, comic-book panels, and a narrator who will not shut up. Their old flame reignites just as a jealous fiance and a hired gun close in. It is Romeo and Juliet with handguns and the IQ of a bumper sticker.

Space Jam: A New Legacy

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

115 min | PG | July 16, 2021 | Warner Bros. Pictures

LeBron James gets trapped inside the Warner Bros. server-verse and has to coach the Looney Tunes to victory to free his kidnapped son. The villain is a rogue algorithm. The real product is the catalog.

The Boss Baby: Family Business

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

107 min | PG | July 2, 2021 | Universal Pictures

Tim and Ted Templeton are grown up and estranged when a magic formula turns them back into a kid and a baby for one more mission. A new Boss Baby in the family needs saving from a tech-guru villain. The premise exists so the first movie can happen again, louder.

Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

117 min | R | June 16, 2021 | Lionsgate

Michael Bryce gets pulled out of forced retirement to babysit a hitman and his even louder wife across Europe. A vain billionaire wants to torch the continent’s power grid, and Interpol thinks these three are the answer. The plot is just an excuse to point cameras at people screaming.

The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

97 min | R | June 11, 2021 | Hidden Empire Film Group

Carl Black moves his family into a gated suburb and learns the new neighbor is a vampire. Mike Epps panics. Katt Williams bares his fangs and does all the work the script refuses to do.

Mainstream

Fri, 07 May 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

95 min | R | May 7, 2021 | IFC Films

A washed-out drifter with a hatred of phones becomes the internet’s favorite anti-influencer. The fame eats him alive. Mainstream wants to warn you about a culture it does not actually understand.

Separation

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

107 min | R | April 30, 2021 | Open Road Films

A failed comic book artist loses his wife and inherits a custody fight with her rich father. Then his ghoulish puppet creations start crawling around the house where his daughter sleeps. The puppets are scarier than the script, which is not a compliment.

The Virtuoso

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

110 min | R | April 30, 2021 | Lionsgate

A nameless contract killer botches a job and gets handed a cryptic next target by his mentor. He stalks a small town diner trying to figure out which stranger he is supposed to shoot. The mystery is the only thing keeping the lights on, and it goes out early.

Vanquish

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

96 min | R | April 16, 2021 | Lionsgate

An assassin gets blackmailed into one last night of dirty work by a retired cop who holds her daughter hostage. She drives around a neon-soaked city collecting cash from drug dealers. The only thing the movie executes cleanly is itself.

The Unholy

Fri, 02 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

99 min | PG-13 | April 2, 2021 | Screen Gems

A washed-up reporter digs up a fake miracle in a small New England town and a mute girl starts hearing the Virgin Mary. The Church smells salvation. The movie smells like every possession picture you have already seen.

Chaos Walking

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

109 min | PG-13 | March 5, 2021 | Lionsgate

A boy lands on a colony world where every man’s thoughts pour out loud as visible Noise, and there are no women left. Then a girl crashes from the sky, the only silent mind on the planet. The setup hands you a great movie. This is not it.

Tom & Jerry

Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

101 min | PG | February 26, 2021 | Warner Bros. Pictures

A cat and a mouse take their feud to a fancy Manhattan hotel during a celebrity wedding. The animation is hand-drawn over live action, which is the one bold idea here. Then the movie hands the spotlight to the people.

Music

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

107 min | PG-13 | February 10, 2021 | Vertical Entertainment

A newly sober drug dealer becomes the sole guardian of her nonverbal autistic half-sister. A pop star directs. The result is a vanity project that mistakes a teenager’s neurology for a mood board.

Songbird

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

85 min | PG-13 | December 11, 2020 | STXfilms

A mutated COVID-23 locks society indoors for a fourth straight year, and an immune courier races across a sealed Los Angeles to reach the woman he loves through a bolted door. The pandemic is real. The movie treats it as scenery.

All My Life

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

93 min | PG-13 | December 4, 2020 | Universal Pictures

Jennifer and Solomon fall in love and start planning a wedding. Then a terminal diagnosis turns the engagement into a race against the clock. The film knows exactly which heartstrings it wants to pull, and it yanks every one of them.

Half Brothers

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

96 min | PG-13 | December 4, 2020 | Focus Features

A workaholic Mexican aviation executive learns his estranged American half-brother exists, then gets dragged across the border on a scavenger hunt their dying father designed. The two men hate each other on sight. The movie wants you to believe a road trip fixes that in an afternoon.

Hillbilly Elegy

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

117 min | R | November 11, 2020 | Netflix

J.D. Vance gets a law school dinner crisis and flashes back to his Appalachian childhood and his drug-addicted mother. Ron Howard turns a memoir about class and poverty into a parade of slammed doors and screaming matches. The misery is loud and the meaning is nowhere.

Spell

Fri, 30 Oct 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

91 min | R | October 30, 2020 | Paramount Pictures

A high-flying Atlanta lawyer survives a plane crash and wakes up in a stranger’s attic, his leg shattered and bound by an old woman who calls herself a healer. She practices hoodoo. He just wants to walk again. The premise has teeth, but the movie keeps pulling its punches.

After We Collided

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

105 min | R | October 23, 2020 | Open Road Films

Tessa and Hardin break up, then circle each other through parties, jealousy, and grand gestures that pass for passion. The film mistakes a man who reads your texts and explodes for romance. It wants you to swoon at the thing a restraining order is built to stop.

Alone

Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

92 min | R | October 16, 2020 | Lionsgate

A pandemic turns the population into raging zombies and traps a slacker alone in his apartment. He has no food, no plan, and a dwindling phone battery. The siege is real. The movie is not.

Guest House

Fri, 04 Sep 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

84 min | R | September 4, 2020 | Lionsgate

Randy Cockfield gets out of prison, discovers his best friend sold the family home, and decides the guest house is his now. He throws parties, wrecks the place, and dares the new owners to evict him. The squatter outstays his welcome, and so does the movie.

The Secret: Dare to Dream

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

107 min | PG | July 31, 2020 | Roadside Attractions

A widowed mother of three meets a mysterious handyman who believes the universe gives you what you think about. He fixes her roof and rewires her optimism. The Secret turns a self-help bestseller into a feature-length affirmation.

Artemis Fowl

Fri, 12 Jun 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

94 min | PG | June 12, 2020 | Walt Disney Pictures

A twelve-year-old criminal mastermind discovers that fairies are real and kidnaps one to ransom his missing father. Kenneth Branagh adapts a beloved book series into a digital blur of exposition and weightless action. The film mistakes plot for story.

Survive the Night

Fri, 22 May 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

89 min | R | May 22, 2020 | Lionsgate

A disgraced surgeon and his retired-sheriff father settle into a quiet night at the family ranch. Two wounded brothers force their way in and demand the doctor save the one bleeding out on the kitchen table. The hostages have more conviction than the movie does.

Body Cam

Tue, 19 May 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

96 min | R | May 19, 2020 | Paramount Players

A traffic stop ends in death and the dashboard footage shows something that cannot exist. Renee works the night shift in a department that would rather she stop asking questions. The dead do not file complaints, but they do leave evidence.

Brahms: The Boy II

Fri, 21 Feb 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

87 min | PG-13 | February 21, 2020 | STX Films

A grieving family moves to the English countryside to start over, and the boy finds a porcelain doll buried in the woods. He names it Brahms and starts taking orders from it. The doll is the only one in the house with anything to do.

Fantasy Island

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

109 min | PG-13 | February 14, 2020 | Columbia Pictures

Guests win a trip to an island where Mr. Roarke makes every fantasy come true. Then the fantasies start collecting on the debt. It is a premise built for dread and a movie that forgot to bring any.

The Turning

Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

94 min | PG-13 | January 24, 2020 | Universal Pictures

A young governess takes a live-in job caring for two orphaned children in a vast country estate. The house has secrets, the children have a dead caretaker they will not stop talking about, and Kate starts seeing things in the dark. Then the movie ends like someone unplugged it mid-sentence.

Dolittle

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

101 min | PG | January 17, 2020 | Universal Pictures

A veterinarian who talks to animals comes out of mourning to sail across the ocean for a sick queen. Robert Downey Jr. mumbles a Welsh accent at a flatulent CGI dragon. The animals talk and almost none of them have anything to say.

Inherit the Viper

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

84 min | R | January 10, 2020 | Lionsgate

A family runs opioids through the hills of Appalachia. The dealing is killing the people who buy and the people who sell, and the Conleys cannot stop because dealing is all they have. Inherit the Viper wants to be a tragedy about the cycle and forgets to write the tragedy.

Like a Boss

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

83 min | R | January 10, 2020 | Paramount Pictures

Two best friends run a cosmetics company that is drowning in debt, and a beauty mogul offers to bail them out while quietly plotting to tear them apart. The cast can do anything. The movie asks them to do nothing.

Three Christs

Fri, 10 Jan 2020 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

117 min | R | January 10, 2020 | IFC Films

A psychologist gathers three asylum patients who each believe they are Jesus Christ and puts them in a room together. His theory is that three messiahs cannot survive looking each other in the eye. The premise is a knife, and the movie keeps holding it by the blade.