Had to blast through a handful of duds to maintain our premium membership at the luxury theater. Quick takes:
"Morgan" - Pretty weak. Predictable. Not surprised the director is the son of Ridley Scott ... the Blade Runner influence was there, in a bad way. This movie is basically a Homeless Man's "Ex Machina".
"Sully" - Not, bad actually. Pretty watchable. It didn't head into the cliched over-dramatized territory I expected it to head into. For the most part, it was a pretty grounded and straight-forward story.
"Snowden" - Kind of forgettable.
"The Magnificent Seven" - This might be a rare case where I kind of disagree with the critical consensus. It has like a 55/100 on Metacritic. I understand that. There's nothing original about it. It covers familiar ground. But if you're into classic Westerns, it's pretty fun. Nice action scenes. Likeable characters. You can do worse than "Denzel and Pratt Head West".
"Storks" - It had some funny moments. Nicholas Stoller has done some decent comedies. Pretty generic animated kids movie, though. It's not as good as something like "Zootopia" or "Lego Movie", but it's somewhere on the spectrum between "Hotel Transylvania" and "Kung Fu Panda 3".
"Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" - It's like Tim Burton really wanted to make an X-Men movie or something. There's enough visually interesting things here to make it watchable, but the writing is a bit sloppy and the ending is a giant mess. In line with most of Burton's recent work.