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.

Daddy’s Home

It’s got a good—even earnest—heart when it comes to the never ending demands of fatherhood. But moviegoers are forced to sit through a whole lot of crudity to get a glimpse of it.

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Sisters

With every sick, sad reference to sexual anatomy Fey and Poehler make, it just drags out longer and longer.

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HITnRUN: Phase One/Phase Two

Prince’s final two albums find him as enchanted with sensuality as he was when his controversial career began nearly four decades ago.

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A Head Full of Dreams

One reviewer wrote, “A Head Full Of Dreams comes off like that one friend of yours who’s so positive you want to punch him.” Is this a problem?

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Krampus

The spiritual ideas buried in this unsettling movie can be unearthed more easily in ways that don’t involve a goat demon.

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Blue Neighbourhood

The lyrics dispel any ambiguity about who it is Troye Sivan finds affection for.

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25

Adele’s record-breaking, tear-jerking third album majors in mournful melancholy as she once again unpacks her disastrous romantic baggage.

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Purpose

Justin Bieber is at least trying to grow up—even if he’d be the first to say (and we’d have to agree) that he’s not all the way there yet.

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Made in the A.M.

Throughout this band’s meteoric rise (and fall), you never have to wait long before sweetness gets sullied by reckless sexual choices.

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Love the Coopers

It’s not Bad Santa, thankfully. Not even close.

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My All-American

The composition of a player’s heart outweighs the force of his bulk. And in the late 1960s, nobody had a bigger heart than Freddie Steinmark.

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Burnt

A great message, but one that’s ultimately, um, OK, burnt by the crass content baked into this R-rated recipe.

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Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Just when you’re tempted to think you’ve seen it all, some random filmmaker takes that as a dare.

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Storyteller

Why is this happily married wife, mother and country icon telling tales of crime, murder and rebellious renegades? Read on.

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Rock the Kasbah

Bill Murray has the comedically cantankerous genius-in-his-own mind shtick down pat. He unleashes it again in Rock the Kasbah, to markedly mixed effect.

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