Most of us will enter into the weekend feeling like Steve Martin’s Neal Page, entirely justified in our desires. We should be able to have a Thanksgiving that is not filled with craziness or fighting!
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Interview: ‘King Richard’ director on the family story of Venus and Serena Williams
“King Richard” charts how Richard Williams, the father of Venus and Serena Williams, made good on the promise few believed possible.
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Netflix’s ‘Procession’ seeks to treat the trauma of sexual abuse with art
This is not a movie about crime and punishment, but damage and recovery.
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Netflix’s ‘Tick, Tick…Boom!’ is a miraculous resurrection of an artist we lost too soon
“Tick, Tick … Boom!” is also a soul-deep tribute by Lin-Manuel Miranda to an artist who inspired him at a formative age.
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‘Dune’ is another sci-fi Messiah tale. The New Testament references are everywhere.
Frank Herbert’s beloved novel has enough material that should preclude the kind of dead space that inhabits so much of this “Dune.”
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Daniel Craig has brilliantly reinvented James Bond. But he can’t save the franchise from irrelevance.
The ‘Bond’ franchise has finally rid itself of a decades-long pattern of misogyny and sexism. Unfortunately, the movies are also showing signs of losing relevance.
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‘Mass’ captures grief in the wake of a school shooting. That unfiltered pain is a liturgical experience.
“Mass” captures perfectly this experience of tragic loss, from two radically different perspectives.
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‘The Many Saints of Newark’ is set in a Catholic world. That doesn’t make it a Catholic movie.
When it comes to their religion, the criminals embrace the rituals and ignore the meaning.
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Andrew Garfield and Jessica Chastain are ‘the Ken and Barbie of televangelism’ in ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’
America spoke with Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield about the nature of faith and the singular courage of Tammy Faye.
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Shia LaBeouf met ‘nothing but grace’ while prepping for Padre Pio biopic at a Capuchin monastery
“I’m completely immersed in something way bigger than myself,” actor Shia LaBeouf said in an Instagram post published by Capuchin Friar Hai Ho last week.