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July 2025

July 31, 2025

‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Comes With Fantastic Messages

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the best movie ever made about Marvel’s First Family....

June 2024

June 17, 2024

Inside Out 2 Tackles Belief in a Pixar Perfect Way

Inside Out 2 is great. While not quite peak Pixar (which hit its artistic zenith...

October 2021

October 08, 2021

In No Time to Die, James Bond Finds Time to Care

James Bond is not, by tradition, a particularly loving man. Oh, he certainly is an...

August 2019

August 15, 2019

Where’d You Go Bernadette? Asks an Important Question—and Not the One in the Title

My favorite quote from Where’d You Go, Bernadette? isn’t from the movie at all. Rather,...

February 2019

February 12, 2019

Why Are So Many Horror Movies About Moms and Kids?

The new trailer for The Curse of La Llorona dropped yesterday. It doesn't seem...

October 2018

October 17, 2018

Talking Film, Forgiveness and Faith with ‘Change in the Air’ Director Dianne Dreyer

As Halloween tears into theaters this weekend, you might want to keep an eye out...

September 2018

September 20, 2018

The Critical Lesson White Boy Rick Teaches About Family

White Boy Rick features two scenes that stick with me. The first: Rick Wershe Sr....

July 2018

July 12, 2018

Four Reasons Why A Quiet Place is One of the Year’s Best—and Most Spiritual—Movies

Look, I've seen a lot of good movies this year. First Reformed was great and...

June 2018

June 14, 2018

Incredibles 2’s Incredible Message

Every superhero has his weakness. Superman has his kryptonite, Batman had his Bane. And in...

June 06, 2018

Seven Reasons Why We Need Mister Rogers More Than Ever

On Feb. 2, 1968—Groundhog Day—Simon & Garfunkel recorded the final version of their classic song...

January 2018

January 18, 2018

The Girl in ‘Forever My Girl’ Warns Us About the Dangers of Convertibles

I really liked The Florida Project, but it did feature some extraordinarily lax parenting. Moonee...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

Gleason is the Best Documentary of 2016 So Far

It's 2011, and the faith healing service is in full swing. The auditorium is full...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Batman v Superman Has Issues: Daddy Issues

OK, most of us agree that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice wasn't a great movie....

August 2015

August 28, 2015

Attention Hollywood: Here’s What Moviegoers Actually Want to See

It's been a great year for women in movies. Check out the year's 15 top-grossing...

August 14, 2015

Ricki and the Flash Shows Us What Courage Really Looks Like

There's courage aplenty on the summer's movie screens: Hey, there's Ethan Hunt hopping on the...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

Southpaw: Blind, But Now I See

The eye always gave him trouble. It was the price Billy Hope paid for the...

January 2015

January 05, 2015

What Boyhood Says About Marriage

Paul’s Note: Last week, I put Boyhood on my “best of” list, just as so...