Contributor: Paul Asay

Some movies entertain. Some movies educate. But this movie punishes the viewer.

Back in March, many of us hoped that the coronavirus would be a blip on our personal landscapes. We assumed that with a few weeks of high-intensity safeguards, the COVID-19 virus would slink away, like a vampire at sunrise. Alas, the virus has not been …

This Netflix drama about going to Mars majors in relational complexities—and orbits some surprising content concerns, too.

Just from the name, Netflix’s Cuties would sound like it’d be … cute, right? Cute is what we call babies. Puppies. Maybe the occasional small orange. But Cuties, a French coming-of-age film about an 11-year-old girl who joins a preteen dance troupe, st …

Trinkets is nothing remarkable—not in this age of bad-behaving, telegenic teens.

Kermit, Fozzie and Miss Piggy are back, and they’re just as colorful as ever—in more ways than you might immediately think.

This movie is less interested in blue-state and red-state ideology than its suggestion that, in some ways, we’ve all been taken in.

Sure, the movie biz isn’t quite as lively as it used to be. But as movie theaters slowly pry their doors back open, the cinematic box office is showing signs of a pulse. The New Mutants, a kinda-sorta X-Men flick that feels, frankly, more like a horror …

Black Panther has a good heart, and it gives us a real hero—strong and honorable and, when possible, even filled with grace.

This is, primarily, a horror movie—with a little bit of John Hughes’ Breakfast Club thrown in for good measure.

While David himself may not always be a “good” person, this movie almost always is a “good” movie.

Hoosiers? Nope. This foul, buzzer-bleeping animated series about high school basketball might better be called Loosiers.

The King of Staten Island is funny and authentic and painful and problematic and offensive.

As you might expect from the titular reference to a horror master, Lovecraft Country is brimming with monsters.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. makes an effort to try to do the right things, and that’s important. But just like the agency, the TV show has been infiltrated.