Picture of the main good guys from the anime movie Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train.
Action/Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train

I was surprised by the redemptive messages I found—along with a bunch of severed demon heads.

A mother and child in Awake
Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Awake

It’s difficult to take themes of sacrifice and family seriously from a film that doesn’t seem to value life in …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Nobody

The exceedingly profane language and percussive pummeling batters you as roughly as the hero pounds Russian street thugs.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The Lovebirds

The Lovebirds is like The Amazing Race—but with dead people.

Arne in The Conjuring
Horror, Mystery/Suspense
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

This sequel confronts viewers with many gory depictions of murders and exorcisms.

A lost family in Endangered Species
Action/Adventure, Drama
Endangered Species

Endangered Species is about a family running from both the animals and the people who want to kill them.

Two guys ride in a truck.
Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Wrath of Man

Jason Statham’s Wrath of Man might be about family—or, at least, about avenging them—but it’s certainly not for family.

Drama
Boogie

The predictable storyline is as bald as an ancient pair of hightops.

Matthias Schweighöfer and Dave Bautista in Army of the Dead
Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Army of the Dead

Is this movie terrifying? Not really. Obscenely grotesque? Oh, yeah.

Amy Adams as Anna in The Woman in the Window
Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Woman in the Window

Even if a film is predominantly a psychological thriller, like this one, showing physical trauma is a requirement today, it …

In this scene from 'Tom Clancy's Without Remorse,' a man with a gun lurks behind a wall full of bullet holes.
Action/Adventure, Drama
Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse

This film hooks into themes of a dangerous man grievously wronged and looking for some terminal retribution.

A woman (played by actress Amanda Seyfried) looks pensively out a window in the movie 'Thinks Heard & Seen.'
Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense, Thriller
Things Heard & Seen

The twisted theology alone here gives families plenty of reasons to avoid being swept up in this story.

Portrait of a creepy bad guy from the movie "Mortal Kombat."
Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Mortal Kombat (2021)

Heart-snatching, entrail-spilling, limb-hacking, body-splitting Mortal Kombat gore flows unabated.

A creepy man with an ax walks through a poorly lit forest.
Horror
In the Earth

This gruesome, unsettling horror pic mixes pagan mysticism, science, witchy ritual and torn flesh.

Comedy
Bad Trip

Bad Trip is a bad movie. Period.