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Arts & Culture Ideas
January 08, 2020
A visit to the pope’s old haunts.
Clockwise from top left: ‘Diane, ‘Parasite,’ ‘The Two Popes’ and ‘Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood’ (IMDB, Netflix). 
Arts & Culture Film
December 19, 2019
Let’s be real: When it comes to the best films of a given year, the best film is the one you liked best.
Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins deliver astounding performances in ‘The Two Popes’ (photo: Netflix)
Arts & Culture Film
November 26, 2019
The film addresses the weightiest questions confronting the church—and not just about financial crimes and sexual abuse.
Arts & Culture Film
November 22, 2019
The fact that there is a big-screen “Mr. Rogers movie” is no surprise, nor is the casting of Tom Hanks as the children’s television host.
Arts & Culture Film
November 15, 2019
“Parasite” delivers an epic lesson in class warfare.
Arts & Culture Film
November 08, 2019
Noah Baumbach’s remarkably scripted new film might just as well have been called “End of a Marriage Story.”
Arts & Culture Film
November 01, 2019
The filmmaker Errol Morris gives us several reasons to recoil in his controversial profile and interview with the former White House strategist Steve Bannon.
‘The Irishman’ focuses on hitman Frank Sheeran (Robert DeNiro) and Sheeran’s years-long relationship with the longtime Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) (photo: Netflix).
Arts & Culture Film
October 31, 2019
Scorsese is certainly the great Catholic filmmaker of our times, one who regards sin as something that must be confronted or even embraced in order to be understood.
Alexandre Guérin (Melvil Poupaud), right, plays a sexual abuse victim in ‘By the Grace of God’ (photo: IMDB).
Arts & Culture Film
October 17, 2019
François Ozon has created a film that is connected organically to its subject matter, one that breathes and writhes and grieves in synch with its victims.
Antonio Banderas in ‘Pain and Glory’ (photo: Fox Searchlight)
Arts & Culture Film
October 09, 2019
Growing up, the plan for Pedro Almodóvar was to become a priest. Instead he became one of the world’s great directors.