Contributor: Paul Asay

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.

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.