Free Fire (A24, R)
You never learn enough about any characters to really care what happens to them, and you may feel before long that it would be a favor to mankind if they all died in an explosion.
Cillian Murphy
In the Heart of the Sea (Warner Bros., PG-13)
With a plot as common and by-the-numbers as this, one has to ask why Ron Howard didn’t deliver on the whales, the movie’s biggest asset.
Aloft (Sony Pictures Classics, R)
My overall disinterest was at a level that seemed too much trouble to form any sort of opinions about the film at all, good or bad.
The Edge of Love (Capitol Films, NR)
Can we just agree now that there should be a moratorium on intercutting scenes of childbirth with those of wartime amputations?