To make sure they aren’t forgotten by year’s end, we present our favorite movies of the first half of 2016.

Roland Emmerich doesn’t follow up his 1996 sci-fi smash so much as copy it—but the blockbuster formula no longer holds.

The audacious comedy gets surreal about male insecurities—but they’re still the same old sensitive-bro problems.

Beauty isn’t everything in Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest glossy feature. In fact, it’s hardly anything.

Even this ordinary sequel from Pixar is more enjoyable than most all-ages movies on offer.

In A. Scott Berg’s book, and in the new film, the worn-out trope of the male literary genius gets one more day in the sun.

Based on the popular video game, the film is nearly impossible for non-players to understand.

Andy Samberg and co. gently parody the celebrity machine in 'Never Stop Never Stopping.'

A dance squad is struck by a mysterious illness in Anna Rose Holmer's intimate coming-of-age movie.

The sequel to Tim Burton’s 2010 film is an airless, joyless exercise in whimsy.

'Apocalypse' is the year's best comic-book movie, and its action hinges on characters accepting who they are to defeat evil.

The new documentary shows how O.J. Simpson became whatever you wanted him to be—narcissist, athlete, hero, or murderer.