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October 2008

October 01, 2008

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

This review was originally published at Christianity Today. • In 2007's Oscar-winning thriller No Country for...

July 2008

July 27, 2008

WALL·E (2008) – A Review and a Conversation with Andrew Stanton

This review and interview were originally published in the online edition of Response, a magazine published by...

April 2008

April 23, 2008

Star Wars, Episode Three – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

[This review was originally published at Christianity Today.] • To steal a phrase from a...

April 23, 2008

Superman Returns (2006)

No multi-bazillion-dollar Hollywood budget can match the power of a small dog on the big...

April 22, 2008

The Terminal (2004)

[This review was originally published at Christianity Today.] Near the end of Steven Spielberg's new...

April 22, 2008

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) – A Guest Review by Greg Wright

Greg Wright, who edits Hollywood Jesus and runs Past the Popcorn, impressed me with his...

April 12, 2008

Longford (2006)

This capsule review was originally published in the Winter 2008 installment of Connections, an email newsletter...

April 05, 2008

Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

An abridged version of this review was published today at Christianity Today Movies. - How...

January 2008

January 28, 2008

Jindabyne (2007)

This review was originally published at Christianity Today Movies. - Fishermen have a tendency to...

January 25, 2008

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (2007)

This is a revised version of a capsule review that first appeared in a recap...

January 19, 2008

Paprika (2006)

This brief review of Paprika was originally published in Risen magazine. - In 2001, Hayao...

January 06, 2008

Killer of Sheep (1977, 2007)

Filmed in 1977 as a thesis project on a budget of about $10,000, Charles Burnett's...

December 2007

December 30, 2007

There Will Be Blood (2007)

This review was originally published in an abridged edition at Christianity Today. - In Roman...

December 14, 2007

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)

For decades, viewers have marveled at the deeply engraved face of actor Tommy Lee Jones....

December 14, 2007

THX 1138 (The Director’s Cut) (2004)

Do you ever get the feeling that, to the government, you're just a number? Have...

December 11, 2007

Waitress (2007)

Fans of Firefly and Serenity, don’t despair. The charismatic Nathan Fillion may have a bright...

December 05, 2007

Juno (2007)

An abridged version of this review was originally published in Risen Magazine. - Knocked Up,...

December 05, 2007

The Golden Compass (2007)

Finished with their phenomenal Lord of the Rings trilogy, New Line Cinema needed another series,...

November 2007

November 20, 2007

The Golden Compass – Christians, Controversy, and Phillip Pullman – A Commentary

¬† And so it begins. The first review of New Line Cinema's The Golden Compass,...

October 2007

October 10, 2007

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

A while back, maybe a year or two, I saw some photographs in the newspaper...

September 2007

September 28, 2007

The Wings of the Dove (1997)

It's a shame that Helena Bonham Carter earned a Best Actress nomination for this performance,...

September 28, 2007

Wings of Desire (1987)

When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions. Why am...

September 26, 2007

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)

Y Tu Mama Tambien is being hyped as a "teen movie" for the arthouse crowd....

September 20, 2007

No End in Sight (2007)

Local news programs have known this secret for a long time: There's nothing like on-the-scene...

September 18, 2007

Eastern Promises (2007)

This review was originally published at Christianity Today. - In 2004, screenwriter Stephen Knight went prowling...

September 13, 2007

Zodiac (2007)

This review was originally published at Christianity Today Movies in March of 2007. - Jaws introduced...

September 11, 2007

No Country for Old Men (2007) – Guest Reviewer Kenneth R. Morefield

Campbell University's Kenneth R. Morefield has just seen one of the films I'm most eager...

August 2007

August 24, 2007

Yi-Yi (A One and a Two) (2000)

2007 Update: In honor of the recently departed Edward Yang, let me nudge you toward...

June 2007

June 27, 2007

The Reaping (2007)

This review was originally published at Christianity Today. • In the book of Exodus, we...

June 22, 2007

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)

This review was originally published on May 24, 2007, at Christianity Today Movies. - Would...