Contributor: Paul Asay

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?

Tyler Perry presents what may be his least comedic, least melodramatic movie to date. But don’t think for a second that the play on words in the title is an accident.

You just can’t keep a good monster down—not when he’s 350 feet tall. And now Japan’s favorite destroyer of cities has a little company. (We mean big company!)

Yet another typical Jack Black comedy? Not so much. This silly spoof of the movie industry teacheth more than it doth know.

Is this the new ‘Scarface’? Rapper Jay-Z thinks so, and is devoting his new CD to his new gangster muse. (And we can’t think of a clearer condemnation of a movie than that.)

St. Vincent didn’t convince me of Vincent’s sainthood. But it does remind me that people are so much more than a résumé or rap sheet.

Men, Women & Children is not a fun movie. It is not a “good” movie. It is, for lots of reasons, quite difficult to sit through.

Based on an ’80s TV show, this Denzel Washington bloodbath wants to make sure it’s equal to its R rating.

Miley Cyrus wasn’t laughing out loud when her latest movie was yanked out theaters (due to dismal attendance) mere days after it arrived. We’re not laughing out loud now that it’s available on video.

In the midst of that dank darkness, the story works hard to hit at some of the big issues teens deal with.

Vengeful Mormons slaughter men, women and children in this bloody vision of the Sept. 11, 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre.