“Joker” is more than just another comic book film. It has hit a nerve with an already nervous American public.
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Greta Gerwig shows us ‘Little Women’ like never before
Little Women is having a bit of a moment.
What ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ gets right about redemption (and wrong about the Force)
In my experience the separation of priest from everybody else is neither helpful nor based on any kind of truth.
‘1917’ Review: An epic and intimate trip through hell
Echoes of “Saving Private Ryan” and “Apocalypse Now” are evident, but “1917” has a sense of relentlessness and time that is unique.
The Top 11 Films of 2019
Let’s be real: When it comes to the best films of a given year, the best film is the one you liked best.
The painful beauty in Terrence Malick’s ‘A Hidden Life’
With “A Hidden Life,” the writer and director Terrence Malick set himself a bold and perhaps impossible task: using all the visual resources of film to represent faith itself.
‘Knives Out’ Review: A whodunnit with a (thrilling) Gospel message
A Christie parody for Trump’s America, where the embodiment of chastising justice isn’t the detective but the scapegoat, is a strange, potentially powerful concept.
In ‘A Hidden Life,’ martyrdom is the cost of faith
The new film from Terrence Malick tells the dramatic story of the Austrian farmer turned conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter.
Award for Flannery O’Connor film brings new attention to Catholic writer
It’s not every day that a documentary film director gets a congratulatory phone call from legendary filmmaker Ken Burns. But that’s what happened in mid-October for Elizabeth Coffman, an associate professor of film and digital media at Loyola University Chicago, who got a call from a New Hampshire area code while she was teaching class.
The hopeless (yet Christian) world of Pier Pasolini’s ‘Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom’
Pasolini called “Salò” his first film “about the modern world.”
