Tried to get my money's worth on my unlimited pass the last few weekends before football comes back:
Strays was exactly as dumb and straightforward as you'd think based on the trailer. Jamie Foxx in particular was really having fun with his voice acting, and I do have to admit that the musical cue for the climax of the movie had me audibly chuckling.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter took a fairly thin/throwaway concept (Dracula on a boat! Let's stretch this chapter from the book into a whole movie) and elevated it a little bit with effort and execution. Sir Davos isn't going to get a thumbs down from me.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem was probably my biggest pleasant surprise of the bunch. I didn't really follow much about this or the reviews it was getting, I just went in at the right age for those nostagic feels, but this was a delight. Fun animation style and a fast paced story that was straightforward enough but worked well. Also maybe the first time I've seen the turtles actually portrayed as teenagers. I'm absolutely hoping that we see more of this iteration of the TMNT.
Talk to Me was good, an interesting concept and a great performance from lead Sophie Wilde. It did feel at times that for a horror movie, the amount of time that it spent feeling creepy or scary was a little bit low.
Blue Beetle was decent. The family dynamic gave it a little bit of a different vibe than most, although the "hero fights evil version of himself" story again was a little disappointing. Still, it sounds like this will be the first character that will live in James Gunn's DCU (though it's not the first DCU) film, and I'm fine with seeing some more of this little corner of the DCU.
The Meg 2 was pure end of summer schlock, but it at least moves from ridiculous story beat to ridiculous story beat fast enough that you didn't really have too much time to dwell on it, and then lets it rip for most of the last half hour or so. It did feel like the movie focused too much on the evil corporation responsible for everything and not enough on the ancient underwater killing machines.