Contributor: Paul Asay

An assassination attempt is documented from six different perspectives in this frantically paced thriller. Imagine a whole season of ’24’ getting compressed into one 90-minute movie…

High school’s hard enough—what with algebra, bullies, romantic entanglements and all—without having to fend off an evil race of aliens that’s trying to kill you.

The idea for it was born in a bottle. The execution of it was filmed for the masses. The end of it was an obscene embarrassment.

It has its problems, both in terms of content and plot and even message. But its subject is a timely one, well worth putting much more thought into than most of us usually do.

It’s 2023 and time for another night of lawlessness, a night when murder is legal, our worst sins are condoned and society rids itself of its most “problematic” members.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose director Scott Derrickson again dives into the very heart of darkness as he explores how we might ultimately escape it.

According to Winter’s Bone author Daniel Woodrell, “These people are so alienated from American culture that it’s like a parallel universe.” But they still know about love.

Comedian Bill Maher’s distaste for religion has been a staple of his stand-up routine for 30 years. His movie adds pictures and little else.

After painstakingly engineering intermittent windshield wipers in his basement—with a little soldering help from his children—Bob Kearns gets cheated out of his invention by the big automakers. He WILL NOT stand for that.

It’s a movie I’d like to recommend to friends. But when I start developing a bad case of writer’s cramp from checking off so many profanities, I know I’ll never be able to do so.

While Eastwood’s hard work shows, the choices he made also come with a cost: Yes, a moral cost for those who see his work, but also the outright loss of those discerning moviegoers who never will.

Robert Pattinson sheds his twinkling skin and then shreds it in this bitter, brutal, dystopian drama.

The fact that he’s dead doesn’t stop Jigsaw from wreaking more blood-soaked, torture-filled havoc in this fourth franchise installment which hopes to prove once again that people will pay to see pain.

Should we find fault with a story devoted to the tragedies and triumphs of teens struggling with cancer? To their courage? To their journey toward joy?

Talk about your anti-green flick. Based on the best-selling book by Scott Smith, this ruthless gorefest about carnivorous plants will have people sending donations to deforestation projects all over the globe.