By Jane Horwitz Washington Post

The middle ground

Beautiful Creatures (124 min., PG-13) Strange doings in a Southern town, based on the best-selling fiction series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Acts of witchcraft are not graphic. The film includes occasional profanity and one implied teen sexual situation. Nothing explicit occurs. There’s a potentially lethal shooting. Without preaching, the film says that good or evil is always a choice.

Safe Haven (115 min., PG-13) A young woman on the run falls for widower Josh Duhamel. A couple of flashbacks imply the possibility of murder and, later in the film, drunken spousal abuse. A child falls off a dock and must be rescued. The budding couple spend the night together, but aside from much kissing and removing of outer garments, nothing is shown.

Warm Bodies (97 min., PG-13) “Romeo and Juliet” gets the zombie treatment. The movie pushes the PG-13 envelope here and there, when zombies get blown away gorily or kill humans and eat their brains. Skeletal creatures called “Bonies” kill and eat other, fleshier zombies. The dialogue includes a little profanity. There’s mild sexual innuendo.

R-rated

Bullet to the Head (92 min., R) Sylvester Stallone up to his old — very old — tricks: Point-blank shootings involve much blood and gore. Characters use cocaine. Naked women wander through a house party. An extremely graphic autopsy scene shows a victim’s entire thorax cut open. Bullets are pried out of wounds, and the wounds sewn up. Oh, and the script includes strong profanity.