Comedy, Drama
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has some rough edges. (We’ve felt them here.) It also proves to be positive, …

Action/Adventure, Animation, Kids
Walking With Dinosaurs

So think of Walking With Dinosaurs as a souped-up 5th-grade science class filmstrip, with just enough drama to keep kids …

Comedy, Drama
Saving Mr. Banks

Saving Mr. Banks has scattered content concerns. But it does fly. It has the power to touch both the Travers …

Animation, Comedy, Drama, Kids, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Frozen

Frozen is then, perhaps, family entertainment for a new generation. A confection sprinkled with a few suggestive asides that remains …

Drama, Musical
Black Nativity

Forgiveness from sin. In Bethlehem, that’s the path Christ paved on Christmas. And in the concrete confines of Harlem, that’s …

Drama
The Christmas Candle

Based on the popular novel by Max Lucado, this film stands in sharp contrast to the shallow, Santa-saturated sentimentality that …

Bolt
Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids
Bolt

TV superdog Bolt finds himself outside in the real world … without superpowers. What’s a caped canine to do when …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, War
Ender’s Game

A Goliath-sized alien invasion force seems set to destroy all of mankind unless a David can be found to stand …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Free Birds

Turkeys go back in time to make sure their forebears are left off the original Thanksgiving menu. Hmmm. Could this …

Drama
All Is Lost

All Is Lost is an intense movie, even without offering quantities of content (one f-word, a minimum of violence, no …

Drama, Romance
I’m in Love With a Church Girl

I’m in Love With a Church Girl can give moviegoers a taste of what the beginnings of that God-given change …

Documentary, Sports
Linsanity

Linsanity’s tagline reads, “Undrafted, unwanted, unwavering.” And those three words sum up this Jeremy Lin documentary well. Sometimes we just …

Drama
Grace Unplugged

Grace Unplugged can feel, at times, like The Miley Cyrus Story: What Could’ve Been.

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2

The only figurative bruised banana here (unapeeling moments, if you will) is a light barrage of thump-to-the-crotch, cut-the-cheese humor.

Documentary
Unstoppable

Motivated by the death of a teenage family friend, Kirk Cameron tackles the difficult subject of why we experience pain …