Comedy

By turns laugh-out-loud raunchy and mawkishly sentimental, Girls Trip suffers from an inconsistent tone....

Scarlett Johansson leads a spirited cast, which includes Kate McKinnon, through a night of naughty hi-jinks. Mild, unmemorable, but sometimes funny....

As modest as the jokes are, even they dry up as 'Baywatch' grinds forward with a generic action-thriller plot....

Weird enough to be of interest but not clear-headed enough to resonate, 'Colossal' ends up being a washout....

Forced wackiness makes the new Going in Style a far cry from the dignified 1979 original....

Did the world really need a 'CHiPS' reboot? If the results were funnier, the answer would be yes. But they're not....

Good cast, decent premise - but botched execution. Too much plot gets in the way of the laughs....

Billy Bob Thornton is back as the alcohol-swilling, life-hating, shopping mall Santa. There are laughs, but it's all pretty uninspired....

Funny and well acted, 'The Edge of Seventeen' is easy to recommend on the strength of Hailee Steinfeld's lead performance as angst-ridden high schoole...