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By: The Catholic Post - October 31, 2019 -
Movie Review
Alec Baldwin and Edward Norton star in a scene from the movie "Motherless in Brooklyn." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Edward Norton wrote, directed and stars in this adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 novel and the result is a top-notch crime drama. Norton plays a private detective in 1950s New York whose Tourette’s syndrome is offset by a phenomenal memory for detail. After his friend, mentor and senior partner (Bruce Willis) […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 31, 2019 -
Movie Review
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and St. John Paul II are seen in a still from the feature-length documentary "The Divine Plan." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Nexus Media)
By Catholic News Service This feature-length documentary examines the partnership between St. John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan that took shape after both survived assassination attempts and asks whether their collaboration in ending the Cold War and bringing about the fall of Soviet communism was accidental or providential. Filmmaker Robert Orlando showcases interviews with […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 29, 2019 -
Movie Review
fact-based drama, French, subtitles
Melvil Poupaud, right, stars in a scene from the movie "By the Grace of God." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/courtesy Music Box Films)
By Catholic News Service Hard-hitting fact-based drama about priestly sexual abuse. Decades after being molested by Father Bernard Preynat (Bernard Verley) a group of survivors in Lyon, France, band together to bring him to justice and to compel the archbishop of that city, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin (Francois Marthouret), to reveal what he knew about Preynat’s […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 28, 2019 -
Movie Review
Jon Hamm, Natalie Portman, outer space
Natalie Portman and Jon Hamm star in a scene from the movie "Lucy in the Sky." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Loosely based on a real-life love triangle involving astronauts, this drama attempts to portray how the experience of outer space has a way of altering earthbound judgments. Natalie Portman plays a robotics specialist who, bored of her affectionate but dull husband (Dan Stevens), embarks on an affair with a colleague (Jon […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 25, 2019 -
Movie Review
Benedict Cumberbatch, George Westinghouse, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in a scene from the movie "The Current War: Director's Cut." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/101 Studios)
By Catholic News Service Intriguing historical drama recounting the bitter contest between inventor Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and industrialist George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) as they raced to spread electricity across the United States in the last decades of the 19th century, with Serbian-American tech whiz Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult) supporting first one then the other. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 24, 2019 -
Movie Review
Elizabeth Lail stars in a scene from the movie "Countdown." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/STXfilms)
The Catholic Post Occasionally effective horror story about a haunted phone app that tells victims exactly when they’ll die. A plucky nurse (Elizabeth Lail) becomes the chief opponent of the demon (Dirk Rogers) behind it all, defending her younger sister (Talitha Bateman) with the help of a quirky priest (P.J. Byrne) whose methods are occult […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 24, 2019 -
Movie Review
Cynthia Erivo, Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad
Cynthia Erivo stars in a scene from the movie "Harriet." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Focus Features)
By Catholic News Service Long-overdue but flawed drama chronicling the exploits of the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, Maryland-born Harriet Tubman (Cynthia Erivo). When her owner (Mike Marunde) dies suddenly and his son (Joe Alwyn) threatens to sell her South, she successfully escapes. Connecting with other abolitionists (including Leslie Odom Jr. and Janelle […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 23, 2019 -
Movie Review
Tyrese Gibson stars in a scene from the movie "Black and Blue." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony Pictures Entertainment)
By Catholic News Service Director Deon Taylor’s action thriller succeeds better in maintaining suspense about the fate of its protagonist than in commenting on current social issues, as Peter A. Dowling’s script clearly aspires to do. An African American rookie in the New Orleans police department (Naomie Harris) accidentally witnesses the murder of a drug […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 18, 2019 -
Movie Review
Zoey Deutch, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson star in a scene from the movie "Zombieland: Double Tap." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Sony Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Follow-up to the 2009 horror-comedy combination charts the further adventures of the original’s central quartet — Jesse Eisenberg’s amiable nebbish, Woody Harrelson’s macho gunman, Emma Stone’s commitment-averse loner and her fancy-free sibling, played by Abigail Breslin — as they continue to fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by flesh-craving […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 16, 2019 -
Movie Review
Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sleeping Beauty
Elle Fanning, Angelina Jolie and Sam Riley star in a scene from the movie "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service This routine follow-up to the 2014 live action reworking of the classic fairy tale, and 1959 animated Disney feature, “Sleeping Beauty” reverses the anti-traditional thrust of its predecessor by having its young heroine, the once-cursed Queen Aurora (Elle Fanning), accept the proposal of her longtime suitor, Prince Philip (Harris Dickinson). But […]
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