“Rebecca” tickles at mystery’s itch along our skin.
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Disney+’s ‘Clouds’ details a teen’s cancer story. His real-life mom explains how faith got them through it.
When the high school student Zach Sobiech was diagnosed with cancer, he and his family never could have imagined how many people would hear his story.
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Review: Aaron Sorkin’s new Netflix film ‘Chicago 7’ is like the ‘The Mid-West Wing’
That “Chicago 7” is turning up on Netflix at this precise moment is no accident, the moment being serious.
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Review: A new documentary on Martin Luther King Jr. and the F.B.I.’s toxic relationship
The toxic relationship between the F.B.I. and Martin Luther King Jr. is the subject of the highly-anticipated documentary “MLK/FBI.”
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Review: ‘Antebellum’ reveals the horror of American memory
A Confederate family kidnaps the film’s Black protagonist, Veronica Henley, a modern-day sociologist and New York Times bestselling author played by Janelle Monáe—and enslaves her in the “past.”
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Review: Flannery O’Connor meets Quentin Tarantino in Netflix’s ‘The Devil All the Time’
“The Devil All the Time” is a story of fathers and sons, serial killers, religious frauds and fundamentalist lunatics.
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Review: ‘Mulan’ is uncritical of China—and unmemorable
One can compare the film’s Chinese nationalism to jingoistic American movies by directors like Michael Bay.
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For this Portugese character actor, ‘Fatima’ feels like home
Known for playing Latin American villains, Jose de Almeida plays a priest in ‘Fatima’ and a cardinal in ‘Warrior Nun.’
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Review: ‘Personal History of David Copperfield’ takes a micro approach to a classic
“Copperfield” on the page or on the screen is a moral fable, the story of a boy growing into a moral man
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Review: ‘Fatima’ scores a point for faith by exploring doubt
‘Fatima,’ gives both the innocent faithful and the innocently faithless their due.