Comedy, Kids
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

This is the kind of movie that will have conscientious parents face-palming and shaking their heads.

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 …

Comedy
Masterminds

By PG-13 standards, Masterminds doesn’t push the envelope to the edge in terms of sexual content, violence or profanity. But, …

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
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, 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 …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Storks

Even in films otherwise chockfull of uplifting, pro-family messages, parents have to stay vigilant to the very end.

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.

Comedy, Romance
Bridget Jones’s Baby

Bridget Jones’s Baby wasn’t a horrible movie. It’s funny in places. But even though I laughed, it made me sad, …

Drama
Snowden

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

Documentary, Musical
Hillsong—Let Hope Rise

Hillsong—Let Hope Rise delivers a stirring, refreshing—and musically familiar—reminder that Jesus still reigns amid the chaos of our world, and …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
The Wild Life

Pixar-like moments? Sweet scenes that require wiping a tear from your grown-up eye? Nope, not a one. But then there …