Needs more Jack-Jack and less humdrum

Skillfully mixes playfulness and humanity for a touching look at motherhood.

Foster sports the look of a no-frills grandmother with a deadpan gaze that could stop a bullet.

This is one flat Ocean. That might make for smooth sailing, but not so smooth for a film.

Sadly only inherits the bad habits of the worst M. Night Shyamalan films.

A film bursting with potential that slowly deflates like an overfilled balloon.

Director Kormákur seems to have a knack for draining all of the energy out of life’s most epic stories.

This unquestionably fun film would have been so much better with a shift in focus to generate Lando Calrissian: A Star Wars Story.

Delivers the goods as an irreverently hilarious and literally side-splitting comedy.

This doomed liner not only makes it to port, but entertains us even as we’re predicting its nearly-certain demise.

Reitman taps into the same invigorating emotional reservoir as his brilliant 2007 film Juno.

Feels like a never-ending supply of sweet moments with a better plot probably saved for its sequel.