Contributor: Paul Asay

In retrospect, I’d have to say my high school days were pretty typical. I’d worry about tests. I’d worry about friends. I’d worry about whether Suzy thought I was cute or not, and if not, what it showed about her character that she was more interested …

Parents have enough to worry about with their kids now. They don’t need a bogeyman to ratchet up their anxiety even more.

This movie conveniently cherry-picks its sermon points from wherever is most convenient—the Bible, Gnosticism and our own 21st-century ethos.

Hellboy may be one of the most insanely grotesque movies I’ve ever seen.

It’s frighteningly easy to hate a group. It’s harder to hate a person.

Shazam!, like its namesake hero—much like us all, really—is a bundle of contradictions.

“Why so serious?” So says the evil Joker in The Dark Knight, the bleakest Batman movie ever. And, though the Joker wasn’t talking to Batman, he might as well have been. Never the cheeriest of superheroes, Batman has recently become the cinematic poster …

Jordan Peele knows how to draw a good story, no question. But when he colors it in, it’s always dripping red.

Hotel Mumbai shows us the terror we find in terrorism.

This movie probably looked smarter on paper.

As the broken characters in The Aftermath well know, what’s seen cannot be unseen, what’s done cannot be undone.

Captain Marvel suffers from its hero being too big and the film being too little.

This a pretty inspirational story, too, one that’s augmented by the film’s realistic atmosphere.

This feels like the most crass Madea movie of them all.

This final chapter in the How to Train Your Dragon saga wings its way toward a surprisingly bittersweet conclusion.