Lady Bird, with her magenta hair and acne, is an original; Greta Gerwig, appropriately, takes chances.

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.

Greta Gerwig is not a Catholic, but she did attend Catholic school and wanted to make a film that reflected her joyful experience there.

“Breathe” reminds us of the Christian truth that we are not our own. 

“Goodbye, Christopher Robin” is a dramatic look at the life of the British writer A. A. Milne and his strained relationship with his son.

He might get a shotgun escort when he leaves town, but Thurgood Marshall is the Lone Ranger of civil rights.