“Household Saints” is a story about how culture, and especially faith, evolve through the different generations of an immigrant family.
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Hitchcock’s ‘I Confess’: a classic Catholic noir about the seal of confession
While considered a minor work in Hitchcock’s filmography and the annals of film noir, “I Confess” is Hitchcock’s most explicitly Catholic film.
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‘The Night of the Hunter’: a horror movie without special effects
In ”The Night of the Hunter,” the world is frightening and it’s often the most innocent who suffer. But grace persists.
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In ‘Dark Waters,’ the truth will set you free—but at a cost
The truth makes demands of us. In ”Dark Waters,” that discomfort is enough of a reason to turn a blind eye.
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Watching ‘Taxi Driver’ after the assassination of Charlie Kirk
“Taxi Driver” is one of the best portraits of a uniquely American kind of alienation.
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In ‘St. Vincent,’ anyone can be a saint. Even Bill Murray.
Vincent almost gleefully repels everyone he meets. But as the semi-ironic title of Theodore Melfi’s “St. Vincent” implies, there’s more to him than a first impression might suggest.
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20 years after Hurricane Katrina, documentary ‘Trouble the Water’ inspires righteous rage—and hope
’Trouble the Water’ follows a married couple from the Lower Ninth Ward as they try to piece their lives back together following the storm.
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In ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour,’ memory is a wound that will not heal.
In ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour,’ memory is a wound that will not heal.
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‘The Bad Guys 2’ is the best family movie of the summer—and a lesson in restorative justice
The ”Bad Guys” films ask, how do we determine who the “bad guys” are? And if you’re marked as “bad” from the start, can you ever make good?
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Catholic Movie Club: St. Paul on the road to Damascus—but make it sci-fi
In Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” an ordinary electrician has a transcendent encounter—with U.F.O.s, not God.