Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Max Steel

If you’re going to sit through a nearly two-hour commercial for Max Steel action figures, you might as well have …

Drama, Romance
Priceless

Priceless does an admirable job of helping us see and sense the danger of the carnal world of human trafficking …

Drama
The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation is a powerful, convicting tale. But it’s steeped in horrific displays of violence. And it …

Drama, Mystery/Suspense
The Girl on the Train

While the movie leads us through its mystery via a trailing of crumbs, its problematic content comes at us in …

Comedy, Kids
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

This is the kind of movie that will have conscientious parents face-palming and shaking their heads.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Tim Burton’s infatuation with the macabre and the grim is very much present here.

Action/Adventure, Drama
Deepwater Horizon

From shrapnel-torn flesh to protruding bones, thundering eruptions to chunks of metal yanked from hideous wounds, this heroic story is …

Drama
Denial

Denial is anchored by strong acting and even stronger subject matter: The importance of protecting truth and history. And it …

Comedy
Masterminds

By PG-13 standards, Masterminds doesn’t push the envelope to the edge in terms of sexual content, violence or profanity. But, …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Western
The Magnificent Seven

This violent remake presents its seven stars as flawed heroes—bad men with good hearts who sacrifice themselves to deal with …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Storks

Even in films otherwise chockfull of uplifting, pro-family messages, parents have to stay vigilant to the very end.

Drama
Queen of Katwe

Queen of Katwe is a story about hope—and about the courage, determination and skill that goes hand-in-hand with that hope.

Documentary, Musical
Hillsong—Let Hope Rise

Hillsong—Let Hope Rise delivers a stirring, refreshing—and musically familiar—reminder that Jesus still reigns amid the chaos of our world, and …

Drama
Snowden

Is the sympathy Oliver Stone strives to stir up for his subject something we should embrace or something we should …

Drama, Horror
Blair Witch

This sequel still feels like we’ve been-there-and-flinched-at-that before.