J.K. Simmons

The Epoch Times film critic sifts through the 38 big screen offerings of January 2016, and picks five. The choices are based on which movies will have the most visibility and potential to impact culture, especially (but not always) in a positive way, and collates some critique excerpts from fellow reviewers from other news publications.

Fifth Terminator movie doesn’t spice up it’s warmed-up plate of clichés with anything decisively new, other than a nano-nator, and even that’s meh.

Like the slow rhythmic tapping on the drumskin, Damian Chazelle’s exhaustively brilliant drama begins as a quiet character study, slowly works in its astonishing acting components as an accompanying beat, before exploding into a bloodied knuckle crescendo of a finale which ranks as one of the very best performed, edited, and emotionally stimulating scenes in recent memory.