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.

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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Dead Man Down

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

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Away We Go

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

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The Last Exorcism Part II

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

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Jack the Giant Slayer

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.

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The Invention of Lying

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

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The Forbidden Kingdom

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

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Snitch

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.

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The X-Files: I Want to Believe

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

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