John P. McCarthy

In Werner Herzog’s new documentary, the viewer is left staring into the abyss that is capital punishment.

The quasi-evangelical message of ‘Seven Days in Utopia’

‘The Last Mountain’ offers a damning litany of harms caused by mountain-top removal.

Robert Redford’s “The Conspirator” presents a hinge moment in the history of American democracy.

Only the prickliest atheist could take offense at the Christian message of ‘Soul Surfer.’

The vacuous theology of Clint Eastwood’s ‘Hereafter’

‘Lebanon’ is a bracing addition to the canon of anti-war films.

The new film “Get Low” contemplates the moral psychology of coming clean.

Though it may scare you at times, the film “The Eclipse” ultimately bestows a sense of tranquility.

“Up in the Air” is a heady mix of social drama, dark comedy and, figuratively speaking, mile-high romance.