Nine films that raised our faith in humanity because, after all, humans made these movies.
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‘The Last Jedi’: A New Faith, Hope and Love
‘The Last Jedi’ is a film that strips away 40 years of lacquer to highlight both the inspiration and the challenge at the heart of the “Star Wars” saga.
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What Martin Scorsese can teach us about our immigration debate
“Gangs of New York” reminds us that for as long as the United States has been a nation of immigrants, it has been infected by xenophobia.
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How Jesuits and Jedi are more alike than you might think
Here are the ways Jesuits are a lot like Jedi—and a few ways that they are definitely not.
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Sick of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’? Try these other Christmas films
Five movies to watch this holiday season: some familiar, some unexpected.
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Boys Town turns 100 this month, so go watch the Spencer Tracy movie.
At first Father Flanagan rejected the idea of a film, but he signed on after he saw a script that he liked.
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‘I, Tonya’ may be the film we need to understand Donald Trump and #MeToo
Perhaps Trump-style class resentments and the disregarding of women’s stories are simply constants in American life.
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An (unconventional) selection of Advent films
Again and again, the Advent story is echoed in science fiction; in worlds that seem devoid of hope, a child is born to redeem it.
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‘Wonder’ is sappy and predictable, but you should take your kids anyway.
‘Wonder’ is a tween melodrama on a mission of mercy.
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Disney tried to trademark ‘Day of the Dead.’ They make up for it with Pixar’s ‘Coco’
“Coco” is—despite its otherworldly elements—a realistic look into love, family and tradition.