Critics Consensus

Hobbs & Shaw Is Big, Dumb Fun

Plus, The Babadook director Jennifer Kent's The Nightingale is Certified Fresh.


This weekend at the movies, we’ve got a Fast and Furious spinoff (Hobbs & Shaw, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham). What are the critics saying?



Also Opening This Week In Limited Release

  • , a documentary profile of late actor Anton Yelchin, is at 100%.
  • , a 13.5-hour long collection of feature-length narratives that weave into one another, is at 100%.
  • , starring Naomi Watts and Octavia Spencer in a drama about a model high school student who faces off with one of his teachers, is at 95%.
  • , a documentary chronicling the life and work of photographer and artist Jay Maisel as he sets out to sell the historic home he has owned for 48 years, is at 88%.
  • , about a Palestinian soap opera actor who is pressured by an Israeli fan to make changes to his show, is at 88%.
  • , director Jennifer Kent‘s period thriller about a woman out for vengeance in 1825 Australia, is Certified Fresh at 82%.
  • , a thriller about the chaos that ensues when eight teenage girls become trapped in a house together by an earthquake, is at 75%.
  • , about a young woman who begins to question her father’s Pentecostal snake-handling ministry, is at 66%.
  • , about a 15-year-old coming of age in the Italian crime underworld, is at 56%.
  • , starring Martin Freeman and Diane Kruger in a thriller about a spy handler on the trail of a rogue Mossad agent, is at 55%.

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