Contributor: Paul Asay

There’s a new super-assassin fighting and fleeing the government, with a new girl to help him. But none of that can keep this movie from feeling very Bourne again.

By the fifth film we all know better than to care about who lives or dies. These flicks are all about how they’ll die—and how much it hurts.

If the most buoyant animated movie of the summer was ‘Up,’ what do we call the gloomiest one? ‘Down’? Brace for impact: Tim Burton takes on the apocalypse.

This is a sometimes gritty and fictional-minded movie, with violence and drunkenness and obscenities and troubling-but-true-to-life racial slurs. It is also a loving movie.

Harold and Kumar have become poster boys for stoners. And they’re leading the charge when it comes to stoner movies. Now they have a sequel.

“Everybody wants to ask me lately about my prediction for the future, whether I think this is what will happen in 140 years,” director Neill Blomkamp told Entertainment Weekly. “No, no, no. This isn’t science fiction. This is today. This is now.”

After watching X Games athletes rip it up in this ESPN movie, we can come to only one conclusion: Gravity isn’t a law. It’s just a guideline.

There’s a loaf of goodness packed away in the Millers’ giant RV. Unfortunately, it’s buried underneath sex, obscenities and bales of pot.

Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen team up with Judd Apatow for a comedians-gone-wild R-rated romp through the world of stand-up. Does something smell funny?

What exactly might the phrase “turning the air blue” mean when it comes to The Smurfs? Is it the sound of “s(murf)-words” surrounded by self-conscious giggles? Or a blissful blessing to finally find the right family color?

Truthfully, then, Blue Jasmine is moving and illuminating and beautifully acted. It is also bitterly profane and tragically bleak.

Marvel’s infamously ill-tempered, adamantium-clawed mutant slices through another section of his story—and through his enemies.

You’d think the inventor of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, would have more friends than anyone. Not so much, if this particular cinematic biography comes anywhere near the truth.

This James Wan scarefest is frighteningly effective and surprisingly spiritual. But the images it offers will haunt you long after you turn the lights back on.

Men in Black meets The Sixth Sense as a mumbling Jeff Bridges shows us what the Dude might have looked like if he were dead.