The Greatest Showman will work best with musical purists, those who aren’t turned off by spontaneous bursts of song and an overly sentimentalized view of history.

A jarringly profane, big-budget bloodbath, Logan ultimately pokes and prods at the nature of this mortal coil with a humane touch.

With its uplifting message sagging under a half-baked screenplay and a cheeseball soundtrack, it feels like we’re being offered a reflexive, feature-length apology.

Here are the Worst Superhero Films of the Last 15 Years.

[xrr rating=2.75/5]District 9 opened some major doors for director Neill Blomkamp. His 2009 debut feature not only grossed seven times more than it cost to make, but it took advantage of the first-time expanded Oscar field to snag a Best Picture nomination. What’s more, the young director who has cited Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley as his all-time favorite character from his …

[xrr rating=3.25/5]Do we live in the Golden Age of comic book movies? Each summer, more and more superheroes hit the screen, the multi-plex as crowded with mutants, aliens and villains as one of Marvel’s mega-crossover storylines. According to a recent article on Screen Rant, Marvel Studios may even have its films mapped out until the year 2028. I will be …

[xrr rating=2.0/5]In 1990, director John Maybury directed what would become one of the most influential music videos of all time. Shot mostly in Paris, Maybury recorded his subject in a tight close-up, his camera lingering on her face as she lip-synched, emoting anger that eventually gave way to tears. Although Maybury threw in some interstitial shots of the singer wandering …

Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. Christopher Nolan’s films entertain viewers with their well-dressed neo-noir style and narrative complexity, but below the surface they’re also about creation – often at the mercy of near self-destructive obsession. Just as a brief sampling, Memento’s Leonard Shelby writes a story to himself as part …