Nine films that raised our faith in humanity because, after all, humans made these movies.
John Anderson
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Sick of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’? Try these other Christmas films
Five movies to watch this holiday season: some familiar, some unexpected.
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‘I, Tonya’ may be the film we need to understand Donald Trump and #MeToo
Perhaps Trump-style class resentments and the disregarding of women’s stories are simply constants in American life.
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Review: Searching for forgiveness in a town beset by violence and grief
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” contains enough guilt to keep the town’s confessionals busy for months.
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Review: “Lady Bird” is not your average Catholic school girl movie
Lady Bird, with her magenta hair and acne, is an original; Greta Gerwig, appropriately, takes chances.
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The convent film “Novitiate” has moments of beauty but gets lost in cliché
Set in the early ’60s, “Novitiate” is yet another tale of the trauma suffered by the religious and their orders in the wake of the Second Vatican Council.
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Thurgood Marshall gets the superhero treatment in new biopic
He might get a shotgun escort when he leaves town, but Thurgood Marshall is the Lone Ranger of civil rights.
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Talking heads help humanize the PBS documentary ‘Martin Luther’
The two-hour film portrays the “simple monk” Martin Luther as more of a Catholic than he is generally thought to be.
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‘The Good Catholic’ isn’t the Hollywood redemption story we all want.
“The Good Catholic,” out in theaters today, tells the story of an idealistic young priest, Daniel who is happy in his work, unhappy in his faith.
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French-Canadian nuns face the modern world and a surly teen in “The Passion of Augustine”
In the wake of Vatican II, the teaching nuns of a convent find their way of life being jettisoned by a revenue-challenged church.