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December 2025

December 28, 2025

Watching God’s Top 10 Movies of 2025

Movies still speak to us. And in 2025, they had a lot to say about...

December 29, 2024

Watching God’s Best Movies of 2024

Yep, people still go to the movies. Some people wondered whether that was so earlier...

November 2022

November 04, 2022

Causeway Is All About Healing—and Some Spiritual Cleansing, Too

Causeway, Apple TV+’s new awards-season hopeful, is not a particularly religious movie. The only overt...

March 2022

March 25, 2022

Oscar Goes to Church: Spiritual Themes Flourish in Best Picture Nominees

Some Christian critics of the entertainment industry would say that Hollywood is positively godless. But...

April 2021

April 22, 2021

Oscar’s Bite-Size Docs Are Worth the Watch. Here’s Where You Can Find Them

I’m pretty up on my movies. When the Oscars roll around (as they will April...

April 09, 2021

Three Tasty Thoughts Found in ‘The Truffle Hunters’

Normally, if your dog digs up something a big, smelly blob in the forest, you’d...

January 2020

January 07, 2020

And Denver’s Film Critics Nominate …

It's awards season, of course. The Golden Globes were handed out this weekend, and Oscar...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

Watching God’s Best Movies of 2019

It’s never easy to piece together these “best of” lists, but I especially struggled this...

December 22, 2019

The 12 Best Non-Christian Christian Movies of the Decade

Hollywood and heaven have never been next-door neighbors. Look, most movie studios want to encourage...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

What Critics Get Right—and Wrong—About Green Book

Green Book was not 2018's Best Picture. Not by a mile. Roma deserved the Oscar's...

January 2019

January 30, 2019

Oscar Loses Its Religion

Oscar nominees were announced last week, and like always, they featured plenty of surprises, snubs...

January 07, 2019

Christian Bale Makes a Devil of an Acceptance Speech

People often thank God when they accept awards. Rarely do they thank Satan. Until last...

December 2018

December 28, 2018

Anger Reigned In 2018–Except At the Movies

Avengers: Infinity War gave us the greatest roster of superheroes ever assembled on screen. About...

December 20, 2018

The Year’s Best Movies (According to Me)

Reviewing movies is hard, people. You have to watch a lot of movies, and then...

October 2018

October 04, 2018

Star is Born Comes With Heartache, Song and Just a Twinkle of Faith

It’s barely October, but the movie awards season seems already in full swing. Oscarbait films...

March 2018

March 02, 2018

The Shape of Water is Just Pretty Good … Except for One Beautiful Thing

The Oscars are practically upon us, and The Shape of Water leads the pack with...

January 2018

January 27, 2018

Why the Churchill Drama Darkest Hour is as Timely as Ever

Darkest Hour is the only second-best movie made about the Miracle of Dunkirk this year....

January 23, 2018

Five Oscar Hits and Misses Worth Talking About

Oscar—Hollywood's very own golden, naked Santa Claus—handed out gifts this morning, and he was especially...

January 08, 2018

Are People Missing the Point of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri?

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, ran away with plenty of hardware from the Golden Globes...

December 2017

December 18, 2017

‘I’ve always Been Fascinated with the Concept of Grace:’ An Interview with Lady Bird Director Greta Gerwig

Everyone loves Lady Bird. The little indie coming-of-age dramedy boasts a 99-percent "freshness" rating on...

December 11, 2017

Watching God’s Best Movies of the Year

What makes a good movie? Ask a secular movie reviewer, and they’ll talk about the...

November 2017

November 30, 2017

Film and Follicles: Hollywood’s Seven Best Beards of 2017

Much has been said and written about the Avengers: Infinity War trailer already. Who is...

July 2017

July 13, 2017

Little Love for Faith in Emmy Nominations

TV has never been better, no question. The television landscape is so saturated with prestige...

May 2017

May 08, 2017

I Have a Question About Gender-Neutral Acting Categories: Why?

MTV doled out its annual MTV Movie and TV Awards last night, and Beauty and...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

Let’s Have Viola Davis Accept All the Oscars

Leave it to one little mistake to hijack all the Oscars. Hey, I get it....

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Why Silence Deserved Oscar’s Love

When Academy Award nominees earlier this week, plenty of Oscar's snubs made headlines. No Amy...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

You Picked What?! Watching God’s Best Movies of 2016

I love reading year-end lists. I'm not such a big fan of writing them. Hey,...

October 2016

October 07, 2016

Can a Christian Movie Win an Oscar?

The Birth of a Nation hits theaters today, but it's been in the news for...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

What’s a Life Worth? Oscar’s Best Pictures Tell Us

The value of a human life depends on who you ask. If we look...

January 2016

January 22, 2016

Yes, the Oscars Are Still So White. But Let’s Not Boycott.

If I was king of the Oscars, the competition for best actor this year would...