Movie Reviews

Director Jason Reitman’s comedy “Tully” (Focus) winds up strongly affirming marriage and family life. Yet his film takes such a rocky path to that positive outcome that most viewers may not wish to follow it.

Christianity in today’s Russia was on full display on the big screen April 29, as the documentary, “Faces Among Icons,” made its theatrical debut at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers, New York.

Combine familiar comic book figures with the memorable time-warp premise of 1993’s “Groundhog Day,” and you’ve got the delightful direct-to-video feature “Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash” (Warner Brothers Home Entertainment).

A series of onscreen statistics at the end of “Traffik” (Lionsgate) are meant to alert viewers to the extent of the very grave real-world problem of human trafficking with which the film deals.

Strong pro-life values are embedded in the towering, richly complex Marvel Comics-based adventure “Avengers: Infinity War” (Disney).

Imagine being confined for about an hour and a half in the boys’ locker room of a high school attended exclusively by dullards, and you’ll have a sense of what it’s like to sit through the obnoxious ensemble comedy “Super Troopers 2” (Fox Searchlight).

In “I Feel Pretty” (STX), the latest Amy Schumer comedy, a tumble during a Soul Cycle workout gives her out-of-shape character the reverse of body dysmorphic disorder. Thus she sees herself as slim, beautiful and perfect — and this supercharges her self-esteem, transforming her romantic life and her career.

According to William Friedkin, director and narrator of “The Devil and Father Amorth” (The Orchard), his brief, mostly straightforward documentary includes just such a novelty: the first authorized footage of a Catholic exorcism.