'Alien: Covenant' is the Alien franchise on auto-pilot, with absolutely nothing surprising and the exact same plot as every single other movie.

The idea of entitling the second 'Guardians of the Galaxy' film as 'Vol. 2' works on the surface, yet anyone old enough to remember making mixtapes knows that although "Volume 2" can have some great material, there will always be songs that weren't good enough for the first mix.

As in Deism, 'Mass Effect' emphasizes freedom and choice. We can’t expect anyone or anything else to push us to the right action. We are the ones responsible for determining our path, and meaning is in the way there.

'Logan' is the coda the X-franchise never had. It's the loner finally being alone, the last survivor copping with his guilt. It's time catching up to the ageless and death coming for the immortal.

There is no such thing as a "dark side" when one works in the shadows.

'Moana' is an absolutely beautiful movie and something that, give or take a few troublesome elements, should give a new generation and population of children a character to identify with.

'Doctor Strange' wants to push the boundaries of what Marvel has done before, but remains too mainstream to live up to its name.

As with the two DCEU films before it, 'Suicide Squad' doesn't understand that in order to create tension in its big, epic battles, the audience needs to care about its characters.

Though based upon a game notable for its refinement, depth of lore, and quirky mix of humor and darkness, 'Warcraft' suffers from a lack of character.

There is a joke in 'X-Men: Apocalypse' that the third film is always the worst. While it never reaches the depths of 'Last Stand,' for the X-Men franchise this joke is true.

With the war settled the issue now becomes whether or not 'Captain America: Civil War' is Marvel's best film yet.

The easy review would be to call "Dawn of Justice" a complete disaster. But the honest review is to just call it a mess. A disaster is what will follow, however, if the mess isn't cleaned.

'Deadpool,' just like its title character and 1990s comic series, takes risks like it has nothing to lose. And those risks, with the movie just as with the original comic, pay off.

If cinema in 2015 could be summed up in any word it would be nostalgia. This was the year which saw the return of several major film franchises from as far back as thirty years ago. While such nostalgia properties such as Jurassic World were content to recycle old material …

Perhaps more than any other film in recent memory, 'The Revenant' is a reminder that we are still a small part of a much larger world which can easily destroy us.