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By: The Catholic Post - September 8, 2018 -
Movie Review
Andrew Walker and Lindsay Pulsipher star in a scene from the movie "God Bless the Broken Road." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS photo/10 West Studios)
By Catholic News Service Evangelical drama in which an Afghan War widow (Lindsay Pulsipher) and her young daughter (Makenzie Moss) both benefit from the upbeat presence in their lives of a racecar driver (Andrew W. Walker). As Mom struggles to regain her faith and pay the bills, the speedster grapples with his inability to slow […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 8, 2018 -
Movie Review
Jennifer Garner and Jeff Harlan star in a scene from the movie "Peppermint." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/STX)
By Catholic News Service Jennifer Garner goes on the rampage in this gory, over-the-top revenge fantasy, directed by Pierre Morel. Garner plays a mild-mannered Los Angeles housewife whose mechanic husband (Jeff Hephner) flirts with, but backs out of, a scheme to rob a local drug kingpin (Juan Pablo Raba) only to have the gangster order […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 8, 2018 -
Movie Review
Taissa Farmiga stars in a scene from the movie "The Nun." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Made with a big budget, this fifth film in “The Conjuring” franchise pulls out all the stops in an attempt to rank as the “That’s Entertainment!” of Catholic-themed horror films. But a surfeit of questionable elements, including the tasteless treatment of a relic deserving the deepest possible reverence, makes this inappropriate […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 5, 2018 -
Movie Review
Debra Messing and John Cho, center right, star in a scene from the movie "Searching." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service Gripping thriller in which a doting widowed father (John Cho) discovers he knows less about his teen daughter’s (Michelle La) life than he thought after she mysteriously disappears, and he has to aid the detective on the case (Debra Messing) by investigating the high schooler’s online social interaction for clues about […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 30, 2018 -
Movie Review
David Duke, Ku Klux Klan, Spike Lee
Adam Driver and John David Washington star in a scene from the movie "Blackkklansman." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Focus Features)
By Catholic News Service After becoming the first African-American police officer in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in the early 1970s, a rookie cop (John David Washington) is first assigned to infiltrate a lecture by ex-Black Panther Kwame Ture — born Stokely Carmichael — (Corey Hawkins), then casually manages to contact the local Ku Klux Klan by […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 30, 2018 -
Movie Review
Dennis Quaid and Myles Truitt star in a scene from the movie "Kin." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service This gritty but somewhat intriguing crime thriller with an overlay of science fiction finds an ex-con (Jack Reynor) on the run from the half-crazed head (James Franco) of a protection racket with his 14-year-old African-American adopted brother (Myles Truitt) in tow. Unbeknownst to his sibling, the youngster has accidentally acquired an […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 30, 2018 -
Movie Review
Aquaman, Lego DC Comics Super Heroes
This is a scene from the animated movie "Aquaman: Rage of Atlantis." The Catholic News Service classification is A-I -- general patronage. Not otherwise rated. (CNS/Warner Brothers Home Entertainment)
By Catholic News Service Arch, colorful, and free of gory violence and vulgarity, this animated straight-to-video adventure is what comics-based films should be, namely, fun. Far beneath the sea, an Atlantean troublemaker (voice of Trevor Devall) dethrones the titular hero, his half-brother (voice of Dee Bradley Baker), as King of the Seven Seas. Aided by […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 24, 2018 -
Movie Review
Alex Neustaedter and Becky G star in a scene from the movie "A.X.L." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Open Road Films)
By Catholic News Service Gentle but bland tale of a teen motocross racer (Alex Neustaedter) who happens upon, tames and bonds with an experimental robotic war dog. With the help of the girl (Becky G) he would like to make his own, the lad tries to protect his mechanical pet from being recaptured, either by […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 23, 2018 -
Movie Review
Ben Kingsley, Holocaust, Oscar Isaac
Ben Kingsley stars in a scene from the movie "Operation Finale." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/MGM)
By Catholic News Service Directed by Chris Weitz, this movie offers a Jewish perspective not often found in World War II films. It follows a group of Israeli Mossad agents 15 years after World War II as they covertly infiltrate Buenos Aires in order to capture a high-ranking Nazi (Ben Kingsley) who has thus far […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 23, 2018 -
Movie Review
Bo Burnham, Elsie Fisher
Bo Burnham and Elsie Fisher star in a scene from the movie "Eighth Grade." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/A24 Films)
By Catholic News Service All the varied horrors of middle school are on display in this low-key, moving blend of comedy and drama, written and directed by Bo Burnham. In a riveting performance, Elsie Fisher plays an unpopular teen on the brink of graduation as she yearns for the boy of her dreams (Luke Prael), […]
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