Contributor: Paul Asay

Hacksaw Ridge is riveting cinema. But it’s also bloody—as bloody as we’ve seen on screen for a long, long time.

Aesthetically, Doctor Strange is a good movie, one of the strongest in the Marvel canon thus far. But is it a good movie? A movie suitable for you or your family? That depends.

Inferno is one of those movies where the villain seems determined to launch doomsday through the most convoluted manner imaginable … apparently just to give the hero something to do.

Moonlight, as mesmerizing as the movie is, isn’t just filled with problematic content: It gives us a message counter to what we believe God tells us.

Everything is much like you’d expect it to be on this ride. The characters. The plot. The peril. The content. Oh, yes, the content is exactly what we’d expect in a PG-13 actioner.

Madea represents a kind of no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners justice. She’ll get folks to act “right” even if she has to beat them to do it.

If you’re going to sit through a nearly two-hour commercial for Max Steel action figures, you might as well have a positive message or two to glean, right?

The Accountant is violent popcorn fare—an exuberant, illogical action-packed thriller that’s only message is, “Sit down and watch Ben Affleck shoot people for a while.”

While the movie leads us through its mystery via a trailing of crumbs, its problematic content comes at us in gratuitous waves.

The Birth of a Nation is a powerful, convicting tale. But it’s steeped in horrific displays of violence. And it wallows in human suffering and uses theology to, essentially, justify wholesale butchery.

By PG-13 standards, Masterminds doesn’t push the envelope to the edge in terms of sexual content, violence or profanity. But, man, the film’s underlying, conscience-free ethos is just sad.

Denial is anchored by strong acting and even stronger subject matter: The importance of protecting truth and history. And it does so while staying relatively clean.

Queen of Katwe is a story about hope—and about the courage, determination and skill that goes hand-in-hand with that hope.

Even in films otherwise chockfull of uplifting, pro-family messages, parents have to stay vigilant to the very end.

This violent remake presents its seven stars as flawed heroes—bad men with good hearts who sacrifice themselves to deal with even worse men.