Contributor: Paul Asay

It’s really nothing more than a lame, sadistically minded thriller that relies on its overbearing musical score to tell you when to jump.

Winter’s in need of a new friend! So it’s the search for a slippery soul mate that gives this clean-water movie its porpoise.

Arsty indie director Terrence Malick’s rumination on faith, nature and grace is vibrant, provocative, relevant and beautifully maddening.

While the flick gives Pierce Brosnan a chance to play a spy again, the suave former 007 feels miscast as the bleak and ruthless November Man, and his charm gets lost in the movie’s sadism.

As a superhero story, Venom ironically lacks teeth.

I wonder if Sin City itself is hell, in a way. It reminds me a little of the grey town in C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce—people living in a dark and joyless place, surrounded by their own sin and fear.

When the first ‘High School Musical’ hit Disney Channel, nobody knew what to expect. Now the whole world is singing along to ‘High School Musical 2.’

The Giver believes that if humanity’s given another chance, we could do better. We could make better choices. The Elder’s not so sure. Whose side are we on? Read on.

Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham and a host of other action stars from yesteryear blow up theaters with one of the year’s bloodiest movies.

The Hundred-Foot Journey, based on the novel of the same name by Richard C. Morais, is a sweet and savory treat of a film with only hints of content-derived sourness.

While the special effects are better than what you’d encounter on, say, the Syfy channel, all that’s really separating this late-summer flick and Sharknado are the sharks.

North by Northwest this film is not. But by way of consolation it does feature Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie meeting on a train.

Gamora, Peter, Drax, Rocket and Groot could never be called guardians of the whole hero concept, but in the end they do still manage to be heroic.

One of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final acting turns, A Most Wanted Man, is a mature, measured look at the modern cloak-and-dagger trade.

Weighed down by foul language, inappropriate talk and sexuality unconnected to marriage, And So It Goes is neither as beautiful or as wholesome as you might think it should be.