A Girl Like Her is arguably one of the more vibrant, electric and dynamically alive motion pictures I’ll see this year. It’s also one of the most important.

Little kids are undoubtedly going to enjoy it, and, for my part at least, I can’t imagine parents are going to even moderately despise the 90 minutes required to watch it sitting there next to them. But it isn’t like this is a movie anyone is going to be talking about afterwards, and it’s not like there aren’t better options – Cinderella and Paddington both come to mind – still playing at the local multiplex. Still, Home (2015) is hardly a disaster, and while it didn’t steal my heart, it certainly kept it warm enough that I was hardly displeased walking out of the theater after it had come to an end.

Taken all together, it’s hard to understand how the film, an adaptation of Ron Rash’s Depression-era novel, could ever go wrong. All the same, this movie is close to disastrous, and while production values are high and performances are strong, sitting through all 109 minutes is virtually impossible.

While The Divergent Series: Insurgent isn’t a disaster, while it’s far from horrible, that doesn’t make it a success.

The Gunman is too serious to work as giddy action pulp and too stupid to resonate as a ticking clock drama and as such it’s nothing more than an unfortunate misfire that utterly fails to satisfy.

f a dream is a wish your heart makes when you’re half asleep, then Disney’s live action take on their animated classic Cinderella (and, much like that 1950 favorite, it only utilizes the most basic of elements found in Charles Perrault’s adaptation of the timeless fairy tale) is the blissful fruition of that hopeful fantasizing.

A stunning piece of cinema, It Follows is a darkly bleak sojourn into adulthood that’s more than just your run-of-the-mill genre entry, Mitchell crafting a modern American masterpiece of disaffected youth dealing with the repercussions of their revolt that will undoubtedly stand the test of time.

October Gale is frustrating, there’s no getting around that fact, and it goes without saying that I wanted more from the film that it sadly was able to give me.

Less would have been more as it pertains to Run All Night.