Movie Reviews

This Easter, a new film promises to tell the real-life story of a person who died and miraculously came back to life.

“The Best of Enemies” (STX) is an appealing fact-based drama that promotes humane values and Gospel-guided behavior. On that basis, many parents may consider it a rewarding film for older teens, the inclusion of some mature material notwithstanding.

The woods of horror writer Stephen King’s Maine are dark and deep but hardly lovely in “Pet Sematary” (Paramount).

Family life is exalted over egotistical self-reliance in “Shazam!” (Warner Bros.), director David F. Sandberg’s DC Comics-based origin story.

You might think of “The Mustang” (Focus) as an animal tale for grown-ups. Happily, the old classic formula of a man just needing the love of a good horse has lost none of its luster.

Relentlessly immoral, “The Beach Bum” (Neon), which is billed as a comedy, also is downright annoying.

The hard-hitting, fact-based drama “Unplanned” (Pure Flix) dares its viewers to confront the reality of what happens when a baby is aborted.

In the top-notch but excessively bloody horror fantasy “Us” (Universal), writer-director Jordan Peele takes that trope to a whole new level.