The Purge has always been a story of terror rather than horror and what human beings can reflect in their behavior, both in the best of times and the worst of times. The movie doesn't pull punches yet it is also aware it is entertainment which is a difficult balance.

Not missing a beat because of its release only 2 months ago in Hong Kong, the adaptation of "Dynasty Warriors" which itself was a very popular video game series in Asia seems undeniable (with Netflix bringing it to American audience as part of its international films).

"The Boss Baby: Family Business" doesn't reinvent in the wheel but it knows its IP well enough to understand its needs but also push its boundaries.

Scarlett Johannsen, of course, is good but there is an expectation but the weight that Florence Pugh brings in as Yelena really gives it a pit of interesting despair yet joy at different points.

A franchise like "The Fast & The Furious" going into its 9th film has to have some fun at its own expense but not play too outside the box. The issue is it is hard to take it seriously at all and yet it demands at times a gravitas. It is not about overcoming odds. it is just about wanting that adrenaline of life.

In "Batman: The Long Halloween - Part One", the story follows a multi-issue comic art that integrated the pursuit of a criminal called Holiday (which definitely has shades of Rorschach from Watchmen"). But the psychological aspect that plays most readily is that Batman can be wrong.

Ryan Reynolds is currently and easily the biggest star in "The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard" but he knows when you have the generation before you with their heavy hitters playing in the sandbox that you let them do their thing. That takes a confident star (and a penitent one too).

There is rugged beauty that flows through "In The Heights". There is a love for the area it speaks of as Lin Manuel Miranda flows it through. As someone who spent many and evening traveling up to the Heights to head to Jersey over the George Washington Bridge while at school in the East Village, that glowing sunset over the bridge looking from the streets is undeniable.

The notion of self is an changing perception that runs all through pop culture but it has been present for thousands years but under a different name, context and perception: reincarnation. That perception is at the core of the story of "Infinite".