moviepicks—the place to find uplifting movies

Congratulations! You’ve found the place to learn about the uplifting and entertaining movies playing in theaters or premiering on television, that you can enjoy without being offended. You can also find reviews and comments about uplifting movies, classics and new ones, on video and DVD, listed alphabetically and by category. Keep in mind that many popular movies will never get on moviepicks because of themes or messages that don’t meet standards of decency.

"Did you like the show?"

"Not really."

"So, why did you see it?"

"A friend said it was good."

Sometimes recommendations about a show are helpful. With so much sex and violence on the screen these days, it’s easy for reviewers, and others, to become so desensitized they are oblivious to inappropriate scenes, language, and situations where bad is made to seem good and good made to seem bad.

You’ve probably noticed that ratings are not much help in choosing uplifting movies today. Ratings are so flawed, they are almost worthless. Their standards have nose dived-especially recently, with more and more profanity, crude language, sex, grossness, and gratuitous violence-even in shows with so-called family ratings. On screen sex is simply unacceptable-even if the scene is said to be "brief." In addition, we don’t put reviews on moviepicks about shows where there is inappropriate off-screen sex or that give the impression that non-married sex is acceptable.

Sometimes trailers, posters or video packages give clues that a show isn’t worth seeing, but all too often, something so gross or inappropriate pops on the screen that it makes sense to walk out-or smash the remote off button. We hope moviepicks will help you avoid getting into such situations, with informative reviews about decent shows that don’t need to include line-after-line warnings about explicit scenes or inappropriate dialogue.

We can still find movies that entertain and uplift, while accurately depicting the consequences of right and wrong, M. Russell Ballard explained. He added that the movies we choose to see can be symbolic of the choices we may make in life.

Although we think if a show is garbage for kids, it’s garbage for all of us, there are different levels of interest and situations that may be inappropriate for a particular child. So we try to call attention to these things, and to language that you may want to electronically filter, so you can make the best decisions for your family. Are our reviews always perfect? Of course not, but we think moviepicks is the best resource there is to find uplifting movies without offensive content.

Art by Kimball Warren

It’s probably obvious to you why choosing wholesome entertainment is important, but you may want to use the example of "one little mouse" in our commentary, "It’s a good show—except one little part!" to help explain this to your family and others.