Contributor: Paul Asay

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

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 feels like the most crass Madea movie of them all.

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

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

Alita feels both more adult and, in some ways, less mature than your typical PG-13 actioner.

To Dust is one of the strangest and, in its own way, truest depictions of grief I’ve ever seen on film.

In The LEGO Movie 2, not everything is awesome. But when we look at the movie itself, it comes pretty close.

This horror film kills with abandon, mutilates with gusto and has absolutely nothing at all to say.

The likeable Gina Rodriguez, this film’s star, deserves better, quite frankly. But Miss Bala misses the mark.

New jobs can be awkward. Just ask Joseph Turok. He’s the new guy on a space-age special ops team that’s been tasked with bringing in Turok’s old mentor—a nasty, heartless guy by the name of Kane. Problem is, most of the folks in the squad don’t seem to …

Leap! Dodge! Slide! Flip! Run! RUN! Runrunrunfasterfasterfasteraaarrgghh— This, in a nutshell, sums up the life of Faith: Not, mind you, “a life of faith,” as in Bible studies, prayer and possibly a stay in a monastery, but “the life of Faith,” as in t …

You don’t need to see much of Dragon Ball to realize that this franchise is more adult than it lets on.