Contributor: Paul Asay

Dead Man Down is a surprisingly life-affirming movie. So why are there so many corpses everywhere?

Director Sam Mendes throws a summertime curveball with this romantic indie flick that goes light on laughs and heavy on playing parent—to parents.

Never mind The Last Exorcism Part II’s oxymoronic title. OK, do mind the oxymoronic title, because the whole movie follows its lead.

Back in the day, everyone knew exactly what happens when Jack starts climbing that beanstalk. It was the same thing every time. Now? It could be anything. Which is exactly why you’re about to read this review.

Ricky Gervais cannot tell a lie. No, wait, he can. He tells a boatload of them here. His biggest? That God is a fiction.

Jackie Chan and Jet Li together on the big screen! Is there more to say than that? Yes.

Dwayne Johnson turns in his Tooth Fairy wings to tackle the violent world of the underground drug trade … and the way our justice system interacts with it.

‘X-Files’ creator Chris Carter clearly wants you to believe. But how that belief manifests itself doesn’t much concern him. Decapitations, however, do.

Two alien bros use brains and brawn to escape from Area 51. But the real question is, will you want to escape from this movie?

What if Ebenezer Scrooge had been a lingerie photographer? What if, instead of counting money, he counted notches on his bedpost? What if Tiny Tim was nowhere to be found?

Trust no one, we’re told … and that goes triple for Paul, the pot-smoking, foul-mouthed alien who tells us to throw down our cross and follow him instead.

Was it Conan who so famously said, “I’ll be back!” No? Well, he’s back regardless. And, no, we don’t know why either.

“The devil made me do it” is a pretty lame excuse. But what about “The drugs made me do it?” Still a rationalization? Or a hard, cruel fact in our modern medicinal world? Steven Soderbergh grapples with that question in this gripping but problematic mystery.

This road-trip comedy has a heart. But it doesn’t have a conscience. So are you sure you want to give it your credit card number?

Mean is the new nice at the mall. So step aside, Paul Blart. Ronnie Barnhardt’s the new mall cop on the block, and this guy takes no prisoners.