Mortal Kombat (2021)
Heart-snatching, entrail-spilling, limb-hacking, body-splitting Mortal Kombat gore flows unabated.
Synchronic
What starts out as a grotesque horror movie morphs into something more akin to sci-fi about halfway through.
Vanquish
It’s violent and crass and profane, of course. And it still manages to be very dull and tedious anyway.
In the Earth
This gruesome, unsettling horror pic mixes pagan mysticism, science, witchy ritual and torn flesh.
New Gods: Nezha Reborn
This film’s focus on Eastern spirituality—especially reincarnation—will make it a nonstarter for many Christian viewers.
Arlo the Alligator Boy
This film about acceptance also embraces thinly veiled visual and verbal nods that reference LGBTQ stereotypes.
Thunder Force
These more realistic-looking heroes can go raw in all the wrong ways. Fun? Maybe. For families? Maybe not.
Concrete Cowboy
Concrete Cowboy is a modern redemption tale with an equal number of aces and poison snakes in its boot.
Roe v. Wade
On Jan. 22, 1973, nine Supreme Court justices made abortion the law of the land in America. It was the culmination of a cultural struggle years in the making. Roe v. Wade tells the story of what many consider the most important case in Supreme Court history. It’s a tale told from an insider’s dramatized […]
Godzilla vs. Kong
Kong and Godzilla don’t cuss or make a single inane choice. They just crush and smash things. Over and over and over.