Contributor: Paul Asay

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?

“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.

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.

Bullet to the Head may have a 2013 release date, but this Sly Stallone flick feels exactly like 1983. (And there’s not a lick of nostalgia accompanying that violent fact.)

Does a comedic reworking of Romeo and Juliet featuring zombies foretell the end of the world? Or merely the emergence of the undead romcom?

A fairy-tale weekend, it wasn’t. Granted, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters claimed the weekend’s box office tourney, grimly collecting an estimated $19 million en route to its rather witchy win. But while that may be enough to build a great gingerbre …

Far from being about a car, ‘Gran Torino’ is another chapter in Clint Eastwood’s ongoing quest to explore choices of dignity and disgrace, life and death.

This sci-fi horror story could’ve easily been a PG-13 thriller without all the blood and harsh profanity.

Parker’s the rare criminal who adheres to a stringent set of rules, an actual code of honor. Too bad it doesn’t include things like not stealing, lying or killing.

Don’t pick up the bread crumbs. Steer well clear of the oven. And that’s a warning to the witches in this reversal-of-fortune tall tale, ’cause Hansel and Gretel are the ones packin’ heat now.

On Jan. 22, ABC unceremoniously booted its comedy Don’t Trust the B‑‑‑‑ in Apt 23 after two suitably abbreviated seasons. The network has no immediate plans to air the show’s eight remaining episodes. “You’ve got to give ABC props for ever picking …

They say if Mama ain’t happy, ain’t no one happy. But if a psychotic maternal specter can be made happy through the tabulation of box office receipts, we should have nothing to worry about. Mama, the creepy PG-13 thriller starring the ever-busy Jessica …

Broken City? Try Broken Movie.

In 2003, CIA operative Valerie Plame had her cover blown in the pages of The Washington Post—payback, some suggest, for her husband lashing out against the Iraq War. But this film is about more than politics: It’s about family, duty and the nature of truth, too.

Nothing like a little controversy and some Oscar buzz to stir curiosity among moviegoers. Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s much ballyhooed (and occasionally maligned) tale of the finding and killing of Osama Bin Laden, steamrolled to an estimated $2 …