Contributor: Paul Asay

This gritty, sometimes difficult drama offers some deep meditations on truth, confession and forgiveness.

Whatever point this movie wants to make, it’s done in the service of a vapid, crass, violent, profane story.

This movie wallows in excess of every kind, and for no real purpose but to wallow.

HBO’s new drama revolves around the assault of a woman whose memories of the violent event are quite hazy.

If you poke in its corners and gaze at its accoutrements, you may find that only blackness sits at its heart.

A surprising amount of clutter makes Fuller House feel kinda … empty.

Just Mercy is a beautiful example of the work, the courage and the faith it takes to push against the wrongs of this world.

While God wants would-be partners to ask, “what can I do for this person?” HBO asks, “what can this person do for me?”

Whatever point The Hunt may want to make, or whatever value it might hope to have, is pretty much obliterated by its violence.

The 100 has turned into a decidedly violent, often bloody drama—part Lord of the Flies, part Planet of the Apes, part Lost as reimagined by the CW.

This movie, focusing on two small-town kids in small-town America, feels intimate in a way that sci-fi films rarely attempt.

This animated superhero show on Disney and Netflix is a bit of a mixed bag. Is it navigable? Perhaps. Is it watchable? Just. Is it miraculous? Hardly.

The second season of this mystery-shrouded TV-MA Amazon show is deeply unsettling.

Adora’s pledge to fight for “the honor of Grayskull” may lose sight of other honorable qualities.

By Pixar’s own high standards, Onward is a bit of a disappointment.