A new film preserves Stanley Rother’s dignity while also making him something of a puzzle.
John Anderson
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‘Project Hail Mary’: a feel-good space story with a deep sense of morality
“Project Hail Mary” certainly qualifies as an uplifting experience at the cinema, being a mix of selflessness, sacrifice, camaraderie and even a certain amount of melancholy.
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‘Marty Supreme’ review: Timothée Chalamet’s passage into cinematic adulthood
In making Marty Mauser a narcissistic and egomaniacal obsessive, Timothée Chalamet does a first-rate job of burying his own innate charms.
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‘King of Kings’ is a children’s version of the New Testament. Your spiritual results may vary.
A children’s version of the New Testament, ‘King of Kings’ is based on a work by Charles Dickens that was written as a gift to his children.
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Review: ‘Mary’ on Netflix presents the Virgin mother with an edge
“You may think you know my story,” says Mary, having galloped into the movie on horseback. “Trust me. You don’t.”
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Review: ‘Bonhoeffer,’ Christian complicity and the fight against fascism
What separates “Bonhoeffer” from the myriad instructive Holocaust biographies and melodramas is its timing.
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In ‘Small Things Like These,’ Cillian Murphy confronts the misery of Ireland’s ‘Magdalene laundries’
“Small Things Like These” is dedicated to the girls and babies who went through the Magdalene laundries, the last of which closed in 1996.
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The ending of ‘Conclave’ will have audiences buzzing. But is it worthy of the film’s brilliance?
The Vatican of ’Conclave’ is worldly with men’s ambitions and weighty with papal history
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I was worried ‘Cabrini’ would be another sappy religious movie. I was wrong.
My sense of dread over the film “Cabrini”? It was replaced by respect, even joy.
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‘Poor Things,’ starring Emma Stone, is the movie of the year
In “Poor Things,” Emma Stone is Adam, in a sense, the product of a modern Prometheus, who will drive men wild. Which is both the funniest and pointed aspect of her picaresque tale.