Drama
Moonlight

Moonlight, as mesmerizing as the movie is, isn’t just filled with problematic content: It gives us a message counter to …

Drama
I’m Not Ashamed

Rachel Joy Scott’s story is a moving example of the difference just one committed Christian can make in the lives …

Drama, Romance
Priceless

Priceless does an admirable job of helping us see and sense the danger of the carnal world of human trafficking …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Max Steel

If you’re going to sit through a nearly two-hour commercial for Max Steel action figures, you might as well have …

Action/Adventure, Drama
The Accountant

The Accountant is violent popcorn fare—an exuberant, illogical action-packed thriller that’s only message is, “Sit down and watch Ben Affleck …

Drama
The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation is a powerful, convicting tale. But it’s steeped in horrific displays of violence. And it …

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Girl on the Train

While the movie leads us through its mystery via a trailing of crumbs, its problematic content comes at us in …

Action/Adventure, Drama
Deepwater Horizon

From shrapnel-torn flesh to protruding bones, thundering eruptions to chunks of metal yanked from hideous wounds, this heroic story is …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Tim Burton’s infatuation with the macabre and the grim is very much present here.

Drama
Denial

Denial is anchored by strong acting and even stronger subject matter: The importance of protecting truth and history. And it …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Western
The Magnificent Seven

This violent remake presents its seven stars as flawed heroes—bad men with good hearts who sacrifice themselves to deal with …

Drama
Queen of Katwe

Queen of Katwe is a story about hope—and about the courage, determination and skill that goes hand-in-hand with that hope.

Drama, Horror
Blair Witch

This sequel still feels like we’ve been-there-and-flinched-at-that before.

Drama
Snowden

Is the sympathy Oliver Stone strives to stir up for his subject something we should embrace or something we should …

Drama, Horror, Mystery/Suspense
When the Bough Breaks

When the Bough Breaks paints a nasty, bloody, worst-case-scenario picture of what can (theoretically) happen when using a surrogate to …