Contributor: Paul Asay

Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. The author of several books, Paul loves to find spirituality in unexpected places, including popular entertainment, and he loves all things superhero. His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @AsayPaul.

Good Luck Chuck

Jessica Alba has been telling everybody she’ll never appear nude in a movie. Instead, she should have been promising to never appear at all in ‘Good Luck Chuck.’ (It’s that bad.)

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The Debt

A remake of an Israeli thriller, The Debt examines the price of a lie and the weight of the world resting on the shoulders of three spies tasked with bringing a Nazi war criminal to justice.

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Halloween II

Rob Zombie wants us to see Michael Myers’ face—and then to watch as he obliterates the faces of others.

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Oblivion

Tom Cruise’s latest sci-fi actioner mashes up all sorts of things. And some of them aren’t even alien. It’s clever and mindless. It’s fun and foul. It’s instructive and destructive.

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Scream 4

After an 11-year hiatus, the Scream franchise sharpens its knife to skewer the slasher film genre, our celebrity-obsessed culture … and its own audience.

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Awake

This Jessica Alba-Hayden Christensen thriller borrows a supposedly real medical misfire to stage a harrowing journey to the OR for open heart surgery.

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To the Wonder

Inspirational (and insufferable) director Terrence Malick is back with a sometimes wonderful, sometimes sexual (and always unusual) rumination on love and faith.

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Evil Dead

You’ve already seen the title. So you don’t need to read this review. Really, you don’t. Don’t even bother. Move the cursor away. Click on something that’s quick instead of dead. Something green instead of red. Please. No, no, DON—

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Who in their right mind would turn down a free cruise in the Great Eastern Ocean, on the best ship in Narnia? Eustace Clarence Scrubb, that’s who.

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Extraordinary Measures

Imagine that your children are suffering from an incurable disease that daily takes away more of their strength and spirit. Now imagine that someone gives you the smallest sliver of hope that the disease can be reversed. What would you do?

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Won’t Back Down

Two women—a parent and a teacher—fight to turn their kids’ failing school around. Not everyone will like how they do it. But we can all get behind their perseverance and dedication to education.

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Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor

Marriage is about sticking together, for better or worse, ’til death do us part. But those vows can be get tested when a handsome, Ferrari-driving tech mogul comes slithering through the door—especially in a Tyler Perry morality tale.

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The Croods

You wouldn’t want to live with the Croods. But spending a couple of hours with ’em? That might actually make for a pretty nice visit.

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Knowing

It’s the end of the world as we know it. But Nicolas Cage doesn’t feel fine.

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The Call

We’ve got just one question to answer about this unsolicited Call: Should you hang up on it?

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