The Amazed Spectator 

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning musical translates beautifully to the screen.

Emily Henry’s adaptation reaches romance movie standards, but not romance reader standards.

What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.

'The Suicide Squad' is at its best when it focuses on its characters and commentary on real-life issues, but stumbles when it relies too heavily on gratuitous gore and insensitive humor.

'City of God' depicts the cylindrical cycle of violence that is forced upon the underprivileged.