Comedy, Drama
Military Wives

Military Wives deals realistically with the reality of war and deployment—especially its effects on those who stay behind.

Drama, Horror
Brahms: The Boy II

This horror pic becomes less and less credible—not to mention and less and less watchable—by the second.

Drama, Horror
Fantasy Island

Don’t go to Fantasy Island, my friends. Many who do so here regretted it, and it’s unlikely you’ll be the …

Drama, Romance
The Photograph

PG-13 content concerns ultimately temper the sweet-but-substantive reconciliation at the heart of this story.

Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Valley Girl

Valley Girl—a remake of Nicholas Cage’s much raunchier, R-rated 1983 version—still has its fair share of PG-13-level concerns.

Comedy, Romance
The Half of It

The Half of It comes packing the two-punch combo of same-sex attraction and subtle elbows thrown at people of faith.

Drama, Horror
Gretel & Hansel

Filled with creepy occultism, Gretel & Hansel is made of gingerbread: Alluring to look at, but structurally and morally hollow.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Bloodshot

Despite this film’s PG-13 rating, families may well choose to draw a line with Vin Diesel’s latest bloody actioner.

Drama, Horror
The Turning

The Turning offers a collection of dirty-mirror jump scenes in search of a point. Or a message. Or a story.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Underwater

Underwater skips exposition altogether and leaps with videogame-like glee into its deadly, high-pressure destruction.

Drama
Never Rarely Sometimes Always

This is an agonizing tale of a pregnant young woman who never really seems to recognize any other choice but …

Drama
The Current War: Director’s Cut

Is The Current War electrifying? No, not quite. But it’s got some nice star power.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

For fans of this franchise, The Rise of Skywalker works: not necessarily logically, but emotionally.

Drama
Contagion

Stephen King did the deadly virus-meets-the-supernatural thing with The Stand. Steven Soderbergh matches it up with something even scarier: cold, …

Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Jumanji: The Next Level

This film feels anything but appropriate for families of young kids—the very audience you’d assume it’s made for.