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By: The Catholic Post - January 24, 2019 -
Movie Review
Matthew McConaughey, Jason Clarke and Djimon Hounsou star in a scene from the movie "Serenity." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Aviron Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Romantic thriller in which an emotionally scarred Iraq War vet (Matthew McConaughey) working as a fishing boat captain on a tropical island finds his isolated lifestyle interrupted when his ex-wife (Anne Hathaway) unexpectedly appears and offers to pay him millions to dispose of her alcoholic and abusive second spouse (Jason Clarke) […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 22, 2019 -
Movie Review
Ismael Cruz Cordova, Maria Dragus, Izuka Hoyle, and Saoirse Ronan star in a scene from the movie "Mary Queen of Scots." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Focus Features)
By Catholic News Service Highly spiced historical drama follows the doomed monarch of the title (Saoirse Ronan) from her return to Scotland from France after the death of her husband, King Francis II, through her exile to England where her claim to the throne made her an unacceptable rival to Queen Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie). […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 22, 2019 -
Movie Review
KiKi Layne and Colman Domingo star in a scene from the movie "If Beale Street Could Talk." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Annapurna)
By Catholic News Service Faithful, evocative and reverent adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel about a struggling young African-American couple (KiKi Layne and Stephan James), with many of the attendant weaknesses such careful film realizations can bring with them. Much of the dialogue, scripted by director Barry Jenkins, is wooden and stilted, and it’s a […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 16, 2019 -
Movie Review
Louis Ashbourne Serkis stars in a scene from the movie "The Kid Who Would Be King." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II adults and adolescents. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service The Arthurian legend gets an inventive updating in this thrilling adventure that casts schoolchildren as latter-day Knights of the Round Table, destined to save the world. A 12-year-old boy (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) finds a sword stuck in a pile of rubble and pulls it out, unaware that the mythical Excalibur is […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 16, 2019 -
Movie Review
Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy, Bruce Willis and Sarah Paulson star in a scene from the movie "Glass." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal Studios)
By Catholic News Service Long on eerie atmosphere but wanting in coherence, director M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller reunites characters from two of his previous films, 2000’s “Unbreakable” and “Split” from 2016, for a prolonged meditation on the possible real-life existence of superheroes. Firmly opposed to the idea is a therapist (Sarah Paulson) who claims to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 11, 2019 -
Movie Review
Keanu Reeves starts in a scene from the movie "Replicas." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults.(CNS/Entertainment Studios)
By Catholic News Service After his wife (Alice Eve) and children (Emily Alyn Lind, Emjay Anthony and Aria Lyric Leabu) are killed in a car accident, a scientist (excruciatingly earnest Keanu Reeves) who has been experimenting with injecting human consciousness into robots secretly teams with a colleague (Thomas Middleditch) who specializes in cloning to create […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 11, 2019 -
Movie Review
Bryce Dallas Howard, Charles Martin Smith, W. Bruce Cameron
Ashley Judd, Shelby the dog, Rolando Boyce and Annie Nelson star in a scene from the movie "A Dog's Way Home." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Canine cuteness abounds in this quest-based adventure, adapted by director Charles Martin Smith from the novel by W. Bruce Cameron (who co-wrote the screenplay with his wife, Cathryn Michon). But various elements make the film unsuitable for the youngsters at whom it’s partially aimed. Adopted by an affectionate Denver-based medical student […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 11, 2019 -
Movie Review
Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, Neil Burger
Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston star in a scene from the movie "The Upside." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/STX)
By Catholic News Service Odd-couple mix of comedy and drama in which Kevin Hart is a recent parolee for various crimes who desperately needs employment to avoid returning to prison and Bryan Cranston is an uber-wealthy quadriplegic who requires a caregiver. Director Neil Burger and screenwriter Jon Hartmere have remade a popular 2011 French film […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 9, 2019 -
Movie Review
Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Yorgos Lanthimos
Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone star in a scene from the movie "The Favourite." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service This costume comedy-drama, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, purports to tell the true story of a royal love triangle involving 18th-century British monarch Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) and two of the women in her life: Lady Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz), and Sarah’s ambitious cousin, Abigail Hill (Emma Stone). Playing […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 8, 2019 -
Movie Review
Armie Hammer, Felicity Jones, Mimi Leder, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Armie Hammer and Felicity Jones star in a scene from the movie "On the Basis of Sex." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Focus)
By Catholic News Service This legal drama proves that even though a tax case may be destined to serve as a landmark for equal treatment under the law — as well as a breakthrough for future Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) — in the absence of compelling dialogue or performances, it’s nearly […]
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