Movie Reviews

The adult viewers for whom it’s suitable will find the limited-series sci-fi drama “Night Sky” aesthetically strong but thematically dubious.

“Off they go into the wild blue yonder — again — in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, a rousing sequel to the 1986 blockbuster about one of the U.S. Navy’s elite flying squadrons and its gaggle of cocky fighter pilots.

In adapting a long-running Fox TV show for the big screen, directors Loren Bouchard and Bernard Derriman mix wry observations and quirky personalities with a few jaunty songs to give us “The Bob’s Burgers Movie” (20th Century).

It’s been three long years since Maggie Smith’s tart-tongued matriarch, Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, got off one of her memorable zingers. So it must be time for “Downton Abbey: A New Era” (Focus).

“The Ipcress File,” director Sidney J. Furie’s 1965 adaptation of Len Deighton’s 1962 espionage novel, provided Michael Caine with one of his signature roles as British operative Harry Palmer and won BAFTA’s Best Film award.

There’s some good news about the evangelical comedy “Family Camp” (Roadside): Predictably, it’s almost squeaky clean and thus appropriate for a wide range of age groups.

The documentary is scheduled to be screened Monday-Tuesday, May 16-17.

Like its 1984 predecessor helmed by Mark Lester, “Firestarter” (Universal), director Keith Thomas’ screen version of Stephen King’s sci-fi horror novel, features an abundance of pyrotechnic special effects.