Pixar’s best films understand that kids are capable of profound emotional intelligence. As they try to regain their former success, I think that is what they should focus on.

In ‘Where is the Friend’s House?,’ we see the faces of the Iranian people captured with sensitivity and detail.

You might think an Obama-era film would lose some relevance. But, tragically, “Us vs. Them” is evergreen.

‘The Phoenician Scheme‘ centers on sin and redemption, the frail but fundamental hope that anyone can be saved, if they sincerely repent.

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.”

We should seek to live simply, to take only what we need and share what we have, to see ourselves in kinship with all of creation.

The election of a pope is a joyful thing. But in this 1968 film starring Anthony Quinn, being pope is the hardest job in the world.

Throughout his papacy Pope Francis referenced ‘La Strada’ in homilies, interviews and public addresses.

As the film’s title promises, there is plenty of sin on display, even before the vampires arrive.

Martyrdom finds perhaps its most powerful cinematic expression in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928), a classic of the silent film era and widely considered one of the greatest films ever made.