Contributor: Paul Asay

The Night Before could have been called The Nightmare Before had Tim Burton not already made off with the name.

The fact that all 33 miners made it out of the mine is something of a miracle. And this movie doesn’t try to deny that God was a part of it.

Spectre’s conspicuous turn to the past also gives us a new opportunity to notice how Bond has changed over the years.

By the time the credits roll, Our Brand Is Crisis feels a lot like a badly run political campaign itself: crass, grimy and not sure of its own message.

This franchise is at least as problematic as its gore-encrusted cousins—perhaps more so—because of the message it so reliably puts forth.

Room can be crass and crude and incredibly uncomfortable to see. Room is also a thing of beauty—as inspiring a movie and, frankly, as Christian a story as I’ve encountered in some time.

Movies are a lot like people, too. Great ones are not always good ones. Steve Jobs, rated R as it is, serves as an example of that.

Sometimes it takes a dead planet to make us appreciate the value of a single life.

It just goes to show you that you don’t need a lot of R-rated content to make a pretty thrilling feature.

Sicario asks us questions of morality: How far is too far? To fight such monstrous evil, is it necessary to become evil ourselves?

An overlong frenetic freefall of a film that, for all its action, feels surprisingly bereft of drama.

The most real thing that happens is here on earth. Not a bad thing, maybe, since it resonates far more than the digital visions of heaven.

The Transporter Refueled is more—which means less—than a piece of silly, late-summer theater filler. It’s a loathsome exercise in rationalization.

Nature can even feel like church sometimes, with birds supplying the worship music and lichen padding the pews. This movie, on the other hand, is not very much like church at all.

Tony Stark has a bigger brain than Einstein, a bigger bank account than Queen Elizabeth and a bigger ego than Def Jam’s combined roster of rappers. So why wouldn’t he be back for a sequel?