Contributor: Paul Asay

Turns out, Mike isn’t the tree: This movie is. It’s a disaster waiting to happen, and it truly is trying to keep you from moving on to better fare.

Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro desperately try to claw their way up out of the depths of human despair. One is imprisoned by grief. The other by drugs.

Life is all about making mistakes, Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler want you to know. And to try to prove it, they teamed up with Hitch and Fool’s Gold director Andy Tennant to make this movie.

It feels strangely cynical, and its pseudo aversion to cursing—while welcome—can’t completely ameliorate the moral hole at its core.

No matter how you parse these spiritual musings, though, there are plenty of other reasons not to see Hercules.

This is a story that, in its own damaged way, is about family, healing and grace. It’s about how the better road is sometimes the more difficult, but how important it is to walk on.

Descendants offers some great lessons on the power of love, second chances and the acknowledgement that we’re all worthy and beautiful … warts and all.

This Mission, should you choose to accept it, can be exciting and fun. But it can be dangerous and perhaps damaging, too. And unlike Ethan’s job, going to a movie won’t save the world.

The Wanded One is back at it, flinging spells first and taking names later. How does Potter flick No. 6 measure up to the first five?

Hanging chads? Forget about ’em. This film has a hung-over Bud, who with one delayed vote will determine America’s new political path.

Trainwreck, at least in terms of content, is just that—a careening, cataclysmic disaster loaded with stuff that no one should really ever want to see but, once there, is hard to turn away from

Self/less is exactly the movie you might expect, given its rating, its star and its summertime release: a crude, violent, intriguing popcorn flick. Too bad a better movie got lost along the way.

Let’s be clear: Just because a horror flick is modestly better, content-wise, than its restrictive rating suggests, that doesn’t make it good.

Mickey Mouse is a hard act to follow, but that’s not stopping Nicolas Cage from doing his best in this Disney-approved re-imagining of Fantasia’s most famous segment.

Rambo was last seen running shirtless around the deserts of Afghanistan 19 years ago. Now he emerges from retirement to take it to the bad guys in Burma.