“Hereditary” is a tense and deeply sad horror film that asks incisive questions—and then makes the mistake of giving answers.
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Review: How the godmother of punk became a Dame of the British Empire
Vivienne Westwood is director of one of the last independent global fashion companies in the world.
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Review: Mr. Rogers is still a good guy in the documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
The movie about children’s TV host Fred Rogers, directed by Morgan Neville (“Twenty Feet From Stardom”), is sturdy and unavoidably sentimental.
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“A Man of His Word” is a radical portrait of Pope Francis
In a new documentary from Wim Wenders, Francis is sober, consoling, occasionally sad and always jesuitical.
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Review: Ethan Hawke is a pastor in distress (and a Catholic in disguise) in ‘First Reformed’
Reverend Toller is a cleric cut from the cloth of Graham Greene’s “whiskey priest.”
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Star Wars and religion struggle with the same issue: What do you do with tradition?
“Star Wars,” as a franchise, does not quite know what to do with the history it has inherited.
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‘A Quiet Place’ shows how silence can oppress and liberate the human spirit
In modern life we associate silence with tranquility and solitude, but quietude in this film is grounded in fear of persecution
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Review: The ghosts of World War I haunt a French farm in ‘The Guardians’
Xavier Beauvois’s film is based on a novel by Ernest Perochon, with a lot of its misery, disease and death left out.
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‘Exorcist’ director depicts real life exorcism in new documentary
In “The Devil and Father Amorth,” William Friedkin turns to reality.
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Livestream: The Church in America
Join us for a conversation on immigration, education and incarceration, with a special emphasis on how these topics effect Hispanic Catholics in the United States.