Contributor: Paul Asay

Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. The author of several books, Paul loves to find spirituality in unexpected places, including popular entertainment, and he loves all things superhero. His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @AsayPaul.

Mirror Mirror

Disney’s Snow White sang to birds and swept floors and slept a good long while in a glass coffin, waiting for her prince to arrive. This Snow White … well, she’s a little more determined and active than that.

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The Other Woman

This infidelity-meets-revenge comedy might make you start looking around for the other movie. Any other movie.

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Changeling

When Christine Collins’ little boy went missing March 10, 1928, she began to live out every parent’s worst fear. Clint Eastwood captures her nightmare on film.

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A Haunted House 2

In 1963’s The Haunting we’re told that “some houses are just born bad.” A Haunted House 2 insists that some movies are too.

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

A little boy embarks on a quest that’ll take him across New York City. He thinks he’s looking for a lock that fits a mysterious key. But in truth he’s chasing his father—his father who died on 9/11.

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Letters to Juliet

They say love is for the young. But they are wrong. Letters to Juliet, wrapped around a lovelorn senior citizen and her two young chaperones, insists that true love never carries an expiration date.

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Feast of Love

Feast of love? Poisonous snack of infatuation and lust is more like it.

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Whiteout

Is this bottom-of-the-world thriller a vicious blizzard? Indeed. Is it a perfect storm? Hardly.

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier

After the rollicking (if explosion-filled) fun of The Avengers and the extraterrestrial humor of Thor: The Dark World, The Winter Soldier thunders into a bleaker, murkier place.

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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Girl, the Thing and the Human Torch return to confront a new threat: the enigmatic galactic interloper known as the Silver Surfer.

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Noah

Director Darren Aronofsky offers a spectacular and often moving story, but it’s obviously not the story of Noah.

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21 Jump Street

The ’80s TV show made Johnny Depp a star. This reboot adds so much foul content audiences may be left seeing stars.

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Doomsday

What do you get when you combine a killer virus, a country full of cannibals and wheelbarrows full of gore? … Oh, were you waiting for an answer?

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Paper Heart

Comedian Charlyne Yi is looking for love anywhere the camera can follow in this off-kilter docu-comedy. Instead, she finds Michael Cera, lots of happily married folks and a whole closetful of … paper puppets.

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Veronica Mars

So Veronica Mars, as satisfying as it might be for fans, feels more like a tragedy to me.

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