Contributor: Paul Asay

A superbad ode to sex and suds about high schoolers determined to party-hearty with the big boys on campus.

‘Watchmen’ is being called the superhero movie of the year. We have a different take.

There’s no country for old sin. That’s what The Counselor tells us. So why does it show us so much of it?

Rock ‘n’ rollers didn’t invent sex and drugs. Actually, this biographical drama about Chess Records artists Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry makes the case that it was the other way around.

Bo knows baseball. And Tyler Perry knows melodrama. In his latest play-turned-movie, four couples clash at a Colorado retreat—and (mostly) come away better people than they were before.

The Fifth Estate is a dense, ponderous (and sometimes foul) look at Julian Assange and the complex array of secrets he helped leak.

I’m in Love With a Church Girl can give moviegoers a taste of what the beginnings of that God-given change can look like. A glimpse of the spiritual hope surrender to Christ provides.

All Is Lost is an intense movie, even without offering quantities of content (one f-word, a minimum of violence, no sex).

Through the eyes of a beast, moviegoers see the horrors of humanity—ultimately overcome by beauty and honor and love.

The fierce finale of this story was broadcast around the world more than three years ago. But even so, the film offers a surprise or two.

The more people watch Machete kill, the more I wonder about the danger of forgetting that violence—real violence—isn’t at all a comedic caper.

Grace Unplugged can feel, at times, like The Miley Cyrus Story: What Could’ve Been.

It’s a harrowing spaceship-themed roller-coaster ride of a movie, and it’s not without its content concerns. But in the end, we get out of our pods feeling inspired.

They got to sing a song or two when Miley Cyrus went 3-D. Now they’ve got their own show. And why not? Could thousands of screaming girls be wrong?

Baggage Claim flies high with its message of matrimonial commitment—then gets grounded by premarital sexual content.