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2019: Our Year in Film and Television
We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph about the most memorable movies and TV…
The Ecstasy of the Mob
In his review of the 1946 French film Panique, critic Bilge Ebiri observes that mob behavior is…
A Hidden Life: The Story of a Marriage
I thought we could build our nest high up in the trees.” We hear the voice of…
The Well-Fought Fight
The incorporation of Anglican hymnody into English-language Catholic worship is one of the great blessings of the…
Two Popes, Too Many Untruths
I felt strangely pulled between two minds as I sat through The Two Popes, the new movie said…
Martin Scorsese’s Damned Men Walking
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is about bringing the curtain down—in cinematic and other senses—on the mythology of glamor and…
Joker and Our Crisis of Solidarity
This week, Joker surpassed the $1 billion mark at the global box office, making it the most commercially successful R-rated…
On the Freedom of a Christian Rapper
Much to the chagrin of over-earnest theology scribblers everywhere, Kanye West is now one of America’s most…
Yeezus Follows Jesus
He’s a jackass.” That’s what Barack Obama said of Kanye West in 2009, after West interrupted Taylor…
Don’t See Joker
Don’t see the new Joker film, directed by Todd Phillips and starring an Oscar-starved Joaquin Phoenix. I…
All You Need Is Jesus
I’ve been to see the “good-time movie of the summer”: Yesterday, the story of a world in…
A New Feminism
In our metaphysically confused age, pro-life feminist groups like the New Wave Feminists are offering women an…
Forgiveness at Mother Emanuel
I’ve got something to say.” That is what a black minister heard God say to him moments…
Truth-Telling and Big Abortion
For over a half-century, what styles itself the “pro-choice” movement has thrived because of its extraordinary ability…
Murder, Inc.
The movie Unplanned, which tells the story of former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson’s conversion to…
