An austere film about a drummer going deaf finds revelation in the quiet moments.
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Ignatian spirituality in ‘Wonder Woman 1984’: The line between greed and the true more of ‘magis’
She has faced ultra-powerful, god-like monsters. This time the true opponent is quite different.
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2020 in review: Some of the best films you should see from a surreal year for cinema
Have we seen the end of motion pictures as we knew them?
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Pixar’s ‘Soul’ imagines life after death (and before birth). What does Catholic teaching say?
“Our bodies are mortal, but our soul is, by its nature, immortal and created to spend eternity with God,” says Dawn Eden Goldstein.
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Catholicism gave ‘The Godfather’ gravitas. Why didn’t it redeem ‘The Godfather III’?
The last movie in his “Godfather” trilogy was critically eviscerated when it debuted, and “The Godfather: Coda, The Death of Michael Corleone” seems a last-ditch effort to redeem the film.
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Review: Viola Davis pays tribute to an irreplaceable Black culture in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
Chadwick Boseman also appears in his final performance before his untimely death.
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Is Netflix’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ poverty porn?
Let’s unpack this critique, because how the poor are represented matters.
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Hulu’s ‘I Am Greta’ is the activist’s rallying cry for climate justice
A new Hulu movie follows the activist Greta Thunberg, a teenager whose advocacy for action on climate change captured the world’s attention.
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Netflix’s ‘Mank’ is an old Hollywood tale of hubris—fueled by Scotch
There is no way not to see “Mank” as a tale of self-destruction and professional suicide.
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Borat’s humor is funny and ethical. Not.
It’s still 2020, and Borat and Rudy are still with us.