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.

Ghost Recon: Wildlands

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

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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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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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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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For Honor

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

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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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John Wick: Chapter 2

Just like the first Wick pic, this is a bone-breaking ballet of brutality. It’s a movie that’s more concerned with how it artfully splashes brains, than how it uses any when telling its story.

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A United Kingdom

Like the 2016 film Loving, this historical drama tells the real-world story of a committed, adoring biracial couple who refuse to let prejudice and political pressure rip their marriage apart.

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Linelight

This minimalist puzzle game is surprisingly engaging … for kids and adults alike.

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Rings

Rings, the latest Americanized and cannibalized sequel to 1998’s original Japanese horror flick Ringu, is the equivalent of a fever dream.

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The Space Between Us

This movie might appear to be a just another sci-fi drama. But it’s really more of a boys-are-from-Mars, girls-are-from-Venus coming-of-age story.

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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

If you’re looking for character development or compelling acting or anything other than a cinematic bucket of zombie chum chucked into your face, you’ve come to the wrong place.

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Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

This reimagining of the Resident Evil franchise’s early iterations takes a nasty, horrific turn.

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