Contributor: Paul Asay

When their kids get in trouble at school, five mothers come together to throw a school dance—and form surprisingly touching (if occasionally crass) friendships along the way.

Ignore the title. Bucky Larson was born to be a mess. Better yet, ignore the film entirely.

The Grand Budapest Hotel is being called Wes Anderson’s best movie yet. But is this dollhouse dramedy merely good at being quite bad?

This Glee star’s debut solo album comes less than a year after boyfriend Cory Monteith’s tragic drug overdose.

The story of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection has been told a thousand—no, a million times before. (And in this particular case, in miniseries form not so very long ago.) What makes this film special?

Dogs give their hotel a five milk bone rating. We wish we could be so generous with the movie in which they romp.

No one’s saying 3 Days to Kill will alone inspire someone to be an assassin or thug, of course. Just that there are far better ways to kill a little time.

From acclaimed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki comes a fantasy-laced biopic that flies through the life of WWII Zero engineer Jirô Horikoshi.

This remake of the 1981 Brooke Shields movie is catnip for moon-eyed teens, a sexually charged fantasy that encourages young girls to dream of sonnet-worthy relationships with the cute criminal in algebra class.

Beyoncé Knowles goes mano a mano with Ali Larter in this ‘Fatal Attraction’ takeoff.

What if rescuing a Botticelli means a mother in Bristol or a sweetheart in South Carolina might lose the light of her life? Is art worth saving? And at what price? This George Clooney film draws a few conclusions.

In this touching and tender love story, a convicted killer takes a woman and her 13-year-old boy hostage. Yes, it’s one of the stranger love- and family-affirmation stories we’re going to be talking about this year.

Oh, poor Mary Shelley. Frankenstein’s original author would be horrified (as it were) with this misshapen monstrosity her book has indirectly wrought.

Based on a true story, Gimme Shelter is a gritty, painfully grown-up depiction of what it looks like when a teenager (Vanessa Hudgens) is forced to grow up too soon. It grapples with and pushes toward hope and life in the midst of pregnancy, abandonment, homelessness and abuse.

Wanna ride along with Kevin Hart and Ice Cube in a crass cop comedy? Maybe read this first.