“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” contains enough guilt to keep the town’s confessionals busy for months.
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Review: A Christian town faces its sins in post-war Hungary in “1945”
World War II has just ended, and a little town is struggling to come to terms with its past
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Review: “Lady Bird” is not your average Catholic school girl movie
Lady Bird, with her magenta hair and acne, is an original; Greta Gerwig, appropriately, takes chances.
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The convent film “Novitiate” has moments of beauty but gets lost in cliché
Set in the early ’60s, “Novitiate” is yet another tale of the trauma suffered by the religious and their orders in the wake of the Second Vatican Council.
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Greta Gerwig’s ‘Lady Bird’ is a rallying cry for Catholic schoolgirls everywhere
Greta Gerwig is not a Catholic, but she did attend Catholic school and wanted to make a film that reflected her joyful experience there.
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‘Me Before You’ and ‘Breathe’ offer divergent messages about the value of human life.
“Breathe” reminds us of the Christian truth that we are not our own.
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‘Goodbye Christopher Robin’ shows the trauma behind the creation of ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’
“Goodbye, Christopher Robin” is a dramatic look at the life of the British writer A. A. Milne and his strained relationship with his son.
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Thurgood Marshall gets the superhero treatment in new biopic
He might get a shotgun escort when he leaves town, but Thurgood Marshall is the Lone Ranger of civil rights.
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‘The Florida Project’ is a rare perspective on American poverty
“The Florida Project” tells the story of a mother and daughter in the hidden world of extended-stay motels in the city of Kissimmee, Fla.
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Why are Catholic horror films so popular? Revisiting ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ for clues
American horror is a God-drenched genre, and many of the essential films in the genre are explicitly Catholic.