Contributor: Bob Hoose

After spending more than two decades touring, directing, writing and producing for Christian theater and radio (most recently for Adventures in Odyssey, which he still contributes to), Bob joined the Plugged In staff to help us focus more heavily on video games. He is also one of our primary movie reviewers.

The Boss Baby

The Boss Baby’s eventual affirmation of sibling bonding and familial love makes all its toddler toilet humor a bit more bearable.

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Ghost in the Shell

There are some light good-versus-evil, humanity-versus-tech statements, and even a nod or two to family, but all-in-all the film doesn’t feel quite … human enough.

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Mass Effect: Andromeda

Known for their sci-fi romance options, this Mass Effect series entry sends its nooky into another dimension.

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Saban’s Power Rangers

These five angsty high school heroes sometimes push rebellion to obnoxious levels, while sprinkling in rough-edged language and superfluous sexual innuendo.

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Beauty and the Beast

Families that don’t embrace Beauty and the Beast’s pro-gay moments will be forced to grapple with how best to respond to them.

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Kong: Skull Island

In some ways, this monster masher is an old-fashioned creature-feature. Still, it’s definitely not your grandfather’s kid-friendly kind of Kong.

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Ghost Recon: Wildlands

The shooter mechanics continue to improve. But that doesn’t mean the shooter mess gets any better.

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LEGO Worlds

LEGO Worlds might be described as Minecraft on a sugar high, with zombies, dinosaurs and digital donuts to boot.

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Link’s latest adventure gets restaged in a world that’s much bigger and open-ended. So what else has changed?

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Before I Fall

As the movie points out what it sees as typical teen girl behavior—including wild partying, obsession over appearance, casual attitudes about sex, and rampant, hurtful cruelty—we get quite an eyeful.

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Horizon Zero Dawn

This open-world adventure offers up lots of arrow-slinging, robot-riding and post-apocalyptic soul-searching.

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Halo Wars 2

The second Halo Wars contest delivers real-time strategy thrills without all the famous franchise’s goopy, gory, first-person shooter spills.

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The Great Wall

When he started his trek with a band of some thirty other fighters, William was little more than a 15th-century mercenary. He was a very good one, mind you, a master archer. But he’d spent his whole life fighting for the flag of whoever would pay him t …

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Sniper Elite 4

The latest Sniper Elite entry shatters and bursts enemy bodies with even more graphic “glee.”

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For Honor

For Honor delivers bloody, hack-and-slash action paired with an extremely deep fighting system and bellowing combatants.

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