Film

Stark reality meets gentle whimsy. I’d like to think this is a characterization of the Irish temperament and the arts that flow from it; but whether or not that idea has any wider validity, it fits Calvary perfectly.Another offering from John Michael McDonagh, the writer-director who brought u

Richard Linklater’s journey through ‘Boyhood’

John P. McCarthy reviews Andrew Rossi’s ‘Ivory Tower,’ a documentary film on the uncertain future of American higher education.

There is nothing quite like a nun with a voice.This month, 50 years after Soeur Sourire, the Belgian singing sister, topped the charts with her pop hit “Dominique” (and received the dubious distinction two years later of being portrayed on screen by Debbie Reynolds), Sister Cristina Scuc

The film “Ida” is “less concerned with recounting the Holocaust than in absorbing its echoes.”

The biblical ambition of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’

“We’d like to applaud the filmmakers for raising reading levels, in an industry where dumbing-down is the business model.” Film critic John Anderson reviews ‘Divergent.’

I once had a homiletics professor who said not to worry too much if it appears that members of the congregation are daydreaming during your homily. A homily, he pointed out, is not an act of persuasion. You’re not up there trying to prove some point. (Or if you are, God help the people.) A goo

Is it blasphemous to say that the problem with “Noah” is the story? That it may not be substantial enough to float a star-driven, effects-laden, $125-million movie? Or that director Darren Aronofsky’s attempt to hang flesh, blood, human logic and nautical mechanics on a tale that b

Wes Anderson’s ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’