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Richard A. Blake, S.J., served as managing editor and executive editor of America and director of the Catholic Book Club, as well as America's regular film reviewer for many decades. He is the author of Afterimage: The Indelible Catholic Imagination of Six American Filmmakers, among other books.

Books
Richard A. Blake
Robert Bresson's films explore the mysteries of grace.
Film
Richard A. Blake

Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"

Film
Richard A. Blake

“Public Enemies” resurrects a perennial tragic hero for one more ritual slaughter.

Film
Richard A. Blake
A film of ideas, "The Reader" sometimes suffers from its own pretensions.
Film
Richard A. Blake
Darren Aronofsky's 'The Wrestler' provides a meditation on morality
Faith in Focus
Richard A. Blake
Woody Allen takes Barcelona
Faith in Focus
Richard A. Blake
Pixar's 'Wall-E' reviewed
Film
Richard A. Blake
When a film takes in over $100 million in its first weekend, no one much cares what reviewers say about it. The corporate verdict is in. Negative reactions can be dismissed as “elitist,” a word that has become pivotal in presidential campaign rhetoric. Positive comments can be lamented a
Richard A. Blake
The latest Indiana Jones film provides comfort food for the imagination
Faith in Focus
Richard A. Blake
There Will Be Blood opens in 1897, 15 years earlier than its literary source, Upton Sinclair’s Oil! The shift is significant. In 1890 the Census Bureau declared that the American frontier had been closed and the expansion of the United States from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific had been com