I did not write “The Allegory” to be an apologia for Christianity. I began writing the film script in my bedroom in Crown Heights in the summer of 2022 because I had never written a film script.
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Remembering Robert Redford and ‘Ordinary People,’ his devastating, nearly perfect film
The film is so hard, so painful and so truthful. There is barely a false note to be found.
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The unsettled soul behind the comic facade: Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers, of “Pink Panther” fame, lived life on a permanent search for spiritual purpose. It has to be said that it took him in some slightly curious directions.
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The new ‘Superman’ is best when it’s most human
The first time we see the titular hero of James Gunn’s new film “Superman,” he doesn’t descend from the heavens. He plummets.
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In new film ‘Nonnas,’ Italian grandmothers put love at the center of every meal
Although “Nonnas” is not an explicitly religious movie, the film’s motif of meals as a conduit for community is certainly also found in the Catholic imagination.
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Is ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Wes Anderson’s most Christian film?
‘The Phoenician Scheme‘ centers on sin and redemption, the frail but fundamental hope that anyone can be saved, if they sincerely repent.
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A documentary on Carlo Acutis offers a spiritual roadmap from the first millennial saint
Blessed Carlo Acutis offers a counterexample for our digital age: a teenager who embraced technology not as an escape, but as a tool for communion—with others, and with God.
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Review: In ‘The Life of Chuck,’ every person contains a universe
How much does any one individual person matter, considered against the grand sweep of history and the cosmos? That’s the question that writer-director Mike Flanagan considers in his new film “The Life of Chuck.”
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What makes a movie Irish?
Questions of Irish identity and “Irishness” are, and always have been, in a state of flux.
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‘King of Kings’ is a children’s version of the New Testament. Your spiritual results may vary.
A children’s version of the New Testament, ‘King of Kings’ is based on a work by Charles Dickens that was written as a gift to his children.