Movie Reviews

If the monster movie “Come Play” (Focus) is only reasonably effective in frightening its audience, it is at least refreshingly free of objectionable material, including gore.

Understated in its approach and mature in its values, the low-key comedy “On the Rocks” (A24/Apple TV+) is an amiable enterprise suitable for a grown audience.

“Fishbowl” (Gravitas Ventures) deals with a grieving family and the obsession with the end of the world.

If nothing else, the sequel “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” (Amazon) has consistency on its side.

Even as he was dying of cancer, Minnesota teen Zach Sobiech became a YouTube singing sensation in 2013 with the song from which the movie takes its title.

British author Daphne du Maurier’s bestselling 1938 gothic novel “Rebecca” has been dramatized multiple times over the years, most memorably in the 1940 movie starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier.

The title may be an oxymoron, but there’s nothing paradoxical about “Honest Thief” (Open Road); it’s a solid, entertaining action thriller.

Humor goes AWOL during “The War With Grandpa” (101 Studios).