Contributor: Paul Asay

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.

What Magic Mike XXL ultimately offers is shallow escapism—intended to be as sexy and as tawdry as its pretty-boy leads

Ted 2 is a two-hour exercise in frustration, because you can see that behind all the foulness, MacFarlane can actually be disarmingly funny.

Sometimes, apparently, the most dangerous place to be is in a safe house. It’s certainly not a movie theater. Is it?

This remake of a violent 1971 “classic” serves up all the original’s rage and brutality with little of its reputed meaning.

We watch this world’s sense of morality implode, leaving us very little to pull from the ashes.

I can’t claim that Inside Out is the best yet – not with the bar already so high. But I do think it’s Pixar’s most ambitious movie, and that’s saying something.

Melissa McCarthy takes on several new super-slick spy identities to save the world! Too bad she’s using the same super-lame bad language.

The Charlie Wilson of the film wallows in drinks and drugs. And he’s fond of loose women. So just how did he become a modern American hero?

Dwayne Johnson’s earthquake actioner has a few faults. But we’ll also talk about what survives.

Aloha can mean a lot of things: hello, goodbye, peace, love. In Cameron Crowe’s flick, though, it seems to mean sweet movie with some sour content.

Tomorrowland isn’t all sunshine, but it feeds the right wolf.

It’s always been about excess for director Adam McKay and comedian Will Ferrell. Now they’ve made a movie that tweaks the concept—by loading up on more of it, of course.