Drama, Romance
The Photograph

PG-13 content concerns ultimately temper the sweet-but-substantive reconciliation at the heart of this story.

Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Birds of Prey

Strip away the language, airbrush out the blood, and you’ve got pretty much the same movie, only better.

Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Valley Girl

Valley Girl—a remake of Nicholas Cage’s much raunchier, R-rated 1983 version—still has its fair share of PG-13-level concerns.

Comedy, Romance
The Half of It

The Half of It comes packing the two-punch combo of same-sex attraction and subtle elbows thrown at people of faith.

Drama, Horror
Gretel & Hansel

Filled with creepy occultism, Gretel & Hansel is made of gingerbread: Alluring to look at, but structurally and morally hollow.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Bloodshot

Despite this film’s PG-13 rating, families may well choose to draw a line with Vin Diesel’s latest bloody actioner.

Drama
To the Stars

This at times racy YA drama sends two very different messages about who’s worthy of acceptance.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Rhythm Section

Actress Blake Lively certainly appears to give her all in this graphic and miserable movie.

Action/Adventure, Comedy
Bad Boys for Life

It’s been 25 years since these self-proclaimed “bad boys for life” first arrived on the big screen, and not much …

Drama, Horror
The Turning

The Turning offers a collection of dirty-mirror jump scenes in search of a point. Or a message. Or a story.

Drama, War
The Last Full Measure

Unlike the stereotypical Vietnam movie, The Last Full Measure brims with hope and meaning amid its story of sacrifice.

Comedy
Like a Boss

Viewers have a front-row seat to hurled insults and some very graphic language.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Code 8

This low-budget sci-fi movie’s popularity on Netflix won’t be augmented by Plugged In’s review of it.

Drama
40: The Temptation of Christ

When Jesus was at His weakest point, His most vulnerable state, He was tested and tempted by Satan.

Drama
Selah and the Spades

This film uses privileged teenagers as a window into a stylized, play-like study of human frailty and corruption.