“Taxi Driver” is one of the best portraits of a uniquely American kind of alienation.
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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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Seth Rogen’s Hollywood satire ‘The Studio’ is (mostly) worth the hype
“The Studio,” Seth Rogen’s new creation for Apple TV that has garnered 23 Emmy nominations in its inaugural season, gives us a new version of affable stoner-next-door.
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A summit for Catholic creators: Art, community and spirituality
The Ignatian Creators Summit is a unique blend of professional conference, artistic workshop and spiritual retreat.
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In ‘St. Vincent,’ anyone can be a saint. Even Bill Murray.
Vincent almost gleefully repels everyone he meets. But as the semi-ironic title of Theodore Melfi’s “St. Vincent” implies, there’s more to him than a first impression might suggest.
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20 years after Hurricane Katrina, documentary ‘Trouble the Water’ inspires righteous rage—and hope
’Trouble the Water’ follows a married couple from the Lower Ninth Ward as they try to piece their lives back together following the storm.
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In ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour,’ memory is a wound that will not heal.
In ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour,’ memory is a wound that will not heal.
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‘The Bad Guys 2’ is the best family movie of the summer—and a lesson in restorative justice
The ”Bad Guys” films ask, how do we determine who the “bad guys” are? And if you’re marked as “bad” from the start, can you ever make good?
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Catholic Movie Club: St. Paul on the road to Damascus—but make it sci-fi
In Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” an ordinary electrician has a transcendent encounter—with U.F.O.s, not God.
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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.