Contributor: Paul Asay

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

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

“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 …

Hotel Mumbai shows us the terror we find in terrorism.

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.