Contributor: Paul Asay

It’s unhealthy to shoot for perfection, and it can damage both parents and kids. But it’s really, really unhealthy to shoot for bad—something that Bad Moms just doesn’t get.

Jason Bourne, the assassin, may be a mysterious figure. But Jason Bourne, the movie, is a known quantity.

Lots of kids are scared of the dark. Martin has reason to be. Shadows are dangerous in Martin’s world: The blackness under the bed. The webbed gloom of the closet. Something lurks in the lightless corners, watching, awaiting her chance. Just fanciful i …

If there is a point in this mostly pointless movie, it seems Woody Allen is asking: Why choose? Why worry? Why can’t we do what the heart wants to do? Why does it have to be so difficult?

Because God is missing here, Captain Fantastic falls short of its idealistic aspirations.

This CGI smorgasbord tells what Warner Bros. hopes is a bankable story, but it’s not a great one.

In Independence Day: Resurgence, love—of country, of home, of others—conquers all, even if aliens destroy much of humanity before we get that happy ending.

Beneath rivulets of blood and lugubrious storytelling are beautiful messages about freedom, equality, self-reliance and the faith that undergirds it all.

For Christians who already know God is out there, do they need to face these cinematic demons?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows tries to replicate the goofy charm of the original 1987-96 animated TV series—but in a messier manner.

The movie isn’t actually trying to get us to barge into cable shows if our retirement portfolios dip, but its satirical tack is still troubling.

Last Days in the Desert forces us to consider the humanity of Jesus in ways that can be challenging and, at times, unnerving.

Captain America: Civil War comfortably follows the CGI-enhanced template, but with one interesting change.

The kitten is cute. The movie is not.

Union Bound is based on the real-life diaries of Joseph Hoover, and it is determined to remind viewers that slavery is indeed a terrible evil.