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John Anderson is a television critic for The Wall Street Journal and a contributor to The New York Times.
Arts & CultureIdeas
John Anderson
A visit to the pope’s old haunts.
Clockwise from top left: ‘Diane, ‘Parasite,’ ‘The Two Popes’ and ‘Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood’ (IMDB, Netflix). 
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Let’s be real: When it comes to the best films of a given year, the best film is the one you liked best.
Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins deliver astounding performances in ‘The Two Popes’ (photo: Netflix)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
The film addresses the weightiest questions confronting the church—and not just about financial crimes and sexual abuse.
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
The fact that there is a big-screen “Mr. Rogers movie” is no surprise, nor is the casting of Tom Hanks as the children’s television host.
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
“Parasite” delivers an epic lesson in class warfare.
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Noah Baumbach’s remarkably scripted new film might just as well have been called “End of a Marriage Story.”
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
The filmmaker Errol Morris gives us several reasons to recoil in his controversial profile and interview with the former White House strategist Steve Bannon.
‘The Irishman’ focuses on hitman Frank Sheeran (Robert DeNiro) and Sheeran’s years-long relationship with the longtime Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) (photo: Netflix).
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Scorsese is certainly the great Catholic filmmaker of our times, one who regards sin as something that must be confronted or even embraced in order to be understood.
Alexandre Guérin (Melvil Poupaud), right, plays a sexual abuse victim in ‘By the Grace of God’ (photo: IMDB).
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
François Ozon has created a film that is connected organically to its subject matter, one that breathes and writhes and grieves in synch with its victims.
Antonio Banderas in ‘Pain and Glory’ (photo: Fox Searchlight)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Growing up, the plan for Pedro Almodóvar was to become a priest. Instead he became one of the world’s great directors.