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Rating: PG-13 for sequences of violent action, language, sensuality and drug content

What it’s about: A hard-partying heir to a newspaper fortune, on a goof, decides to become a crime fighter and enlists his martial-arts and gadget-whiz chauffeur as a sidekick.

The kid attractor factor: Seth Rogen and lots of explosions, shootouts and car chases

Good lessons/bad lessons: “Trying doesn’t matter when you always fail.”

Violence: Shootings, crushings, dismemberments, etc.

Language: Lots of profanity, including almost everything but the F-bomb.

Sex: Nubile females are ogled.

Drugs: Drunk scenes, meth labs

Parents’ advisory: This rude and crude, fanboy-oriented masked-hero movie is a pretty severe test of the limits of PG-13, suitable for 13 and older, but barely.

‘Season of the Witch’

Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, violence and disturbing content

What it’s about: A couple of 14th-century crusaders take an accused witch to trial at a distant abbey through a plague-cursed land.

The kid attractor factor: The Black Death, knights having sword fights, witchery, wolves

Good lessons/bad lessons: Rational people should take superstition seriously only after exhausting every other possibility.

Violence: Quite a bit, and pretty bloody at times

Language: A few mild medieval oaths and one or two modern ones

Sex: A little near-nudity

Drugs: Ale is consumed.

Parents’ advisory: Don’t be the parent whose kids teach my kids dirty words in elementary school. For ages 13 and older only.