Contributor: Adam R. Holz

After serving as an associate editor at NavPress’ Discipleship Journal and consulting editor for Current Thoughts and Trends, Adam now oversees the editing and publishing of Plugged In’s reviews as the site’s director. He and his wife, Jennifer, have three children. In their free time, the Holzes enjoy playing games, a variety of musical instruments, swimming and … watching movies.

The Wall

By the time The Wall crawls to its grim conclusion, it has mightily sought to subvert the American hero war paradigm.

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Malibu

Is Miley Cyrus growing up? “Malibu” suggests the answer to that question might be yes. (Well, maybe.)

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Whatever It Takes

Imagine Dragons’ latest is another exercise in sorta: sorta pop, sorta rock, sorta rap. Sorta spiritual. Sorta positive. Sorta vague.

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From A Room: Volume 1

Chris Stapleton’s sophomore album doesn’t focus as much on being bad as it does feeling sad.

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Want You Back

The latest single from the three sisters who comprise Haim finds a young woman desperately trying to rectify a romantic mistake.

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Thunder

Imagine Dragons’ latest track indulges an adolescent fantasy: getting even by getting famous.

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Attention

Charlie Puth’s latest mixes the ingredients for an incendiary breakup: intimacy, jealousy, manipulation and stalking.

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Unforgettable

Do we really need to see a movie about two women locked in mortal combat?

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There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back

Shawn Mendes’ latest insists that reckless decisions made under the influence of infatuation don’t really matter.

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D–N.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar’s fourth effort veers wildly between the spiritual and the carnal, the profound and the profane.

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13 Reasons Why (A Netflix Original Series Soundtrack)

The soundtrack for this controversial Netflix series about teen suicide may in some ways be more problematic than the show itself.

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Sign of the Times

Harry Styles’ melancholy, apocalyptic solo debut sounds like something you’d expect from Imagine Dragons, not One Direction.

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The Case for Christ

What does it take for a fiercely committed, almost militant atheist to place his faith in Christ? The Case for Christ answers that question.

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Going in Style

Even if Going In Style is intended to be a whimsical farce, it still plants a troubling seed: that successfully robbing a bank is possible, survivable and maybe even justifiable.

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Memories … Do Not Open

Is this surging EDM duo’s full-length debut more helpful and hopeful than it is bleak and bitter?

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