Contributor: Paul Asay

God’s message to us can take many forms: a burning bush, a talking donkey, a still small voice. But a stucco stain?

Inherent Vice is a whacked-out, confused, incoherent mess of a movie—and intentionally so.

Too bad this serious Chris Rock comedy won’t even make our Top 500.

It’s not how God looks that’s the most troubling thing: It’s how He acts in Exodus: Gods and Kings.

Oh, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, wherefore art thou, Shakespeare? Art thou truly the writer we thinkest, creating works of majesty and grace from thine artful brow?

The Imitation Game is a well-made, well-acted, thought-provoking film. Certainly its subject matter makes it a difficult one, and its snide dismissals of God don’t help.

Despite the title, Katniss’ struggle now is no game. There is no arena, there are no tributes. What we’re left with is a bitter war and a dim vision of a better tomorrow.

Based on a true story about Olympic-level wrestling, Foxcatcher looks for love and affirmation but finds only anger and jealousy.

Earth is dying, and mankind throws a Hail Mary pass through a providential wormhole in this grandly scientific, often confusing Christopher Nolan space epic.

Self-made journalist Louis Bloom is a bad person doing bad things … to make a good point? Does that make for a good movie?

It’s not pinball that Travis Freeman plays a mean game of—it’s football. He plays it before he goes blind. And he plays it after, too.

We are all Precious in His sight, we’re told. But sometimes the most precious among us are shown their worth the least.

This overwrought romance gives us, of course, two likable lovers—and a really problematic love story.

A washed-up movie star tries to find a second life as a serious stage actor. But his superhero alter ego keeps getting in the way.

A rumination on race relations at a fictional Ivy League school, Dear White People wants to give us something important to study. So why does the syllabus have so many f-words in it?