Movie Reviews

There’s really no point to “Action Point” (Paramount). This chaotic, poorly crafted comedy — a star vehicle for Johnny Knoxville of “Jackass” infamy — amounts to little more than an endless succession of painful, supposedly amusing, pratfalls.

One of the intractable complications of sailing on the Pacific Ocean, we are told very early in the drama “Adrift” (STX), is that, no matter how skilled the pilot, even on a well-appointed vessel, isolation produces hallucinations.

A cinematic grand slam of sorts happened to Graciela Rodriguez Gilio, whose maiden voyage in the film world, “Beyond the Sun,” was screened at the Vatican last year with Pope Francis in attendance.

With its brief but excessively graphic scenes of bloodletting, the otherwise mildly interesting sci-fi thriller “Upgrade” (BH Tilt) skirts the outer boundaries of moral acceptability.

Superhero fans who rent or buy “Batman Ninja” (Warner Home Entertainment), the latest direct-to-video effort from DC Comics, should brace themselves. Chances are, it’ll turn out to be unlike any movie of the genre they’ve ever seen.

Before he grew up to be Harrison Ford, intergalactic freebooter Han Solo was Alden Ehrenreich — or so at least the folks behind “Solo: A Star Wars Story” (Disney) would have you believe.

Though it goes heavy on the slapstick, “Show Dogs” (Global Road) is, overall, an amiably lightweight comedy.

A second helping of excessively violent action with a side of foul-mouthed sarcasm is on offer in “Deadpool 2” (Fox), director David Leitch’s follow-up to the 2016 original.