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By: The Catholic Post - March 9, 2018 -
Movie Review
horror
Bailee Madison stars in a scene from the movie "The Strangers: Prey at Night." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Aviron Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Sadistic horror flick in which a couple (Christina Hendricks and Martin Henderson), their rebellious teen daughter (Bailee Madison) and her more compliant older brother (Lewis Pullman) arrive at a lakeside trailer park to visit relatives but find the place eerily deserted. They are soon set upon by a trio of masked, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 7, 2018 -
Movie Review
Ava DuVernay, Chris Pine, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Madeleine L'Engle, Mindy Kaling, New Age, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon and Storm Reid star in a scene from the movie "A Wrinkle in Time." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service New Age-style bromides dominate the script of this often eye-pleasing adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 novel for young adults. Four years after the unexplained disappearance of her father (Chris Pine), a NASA scientist who, together with his physicist wife (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), had developed an unorthodox method of time and space travel, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 2, 2018 -
Movie Review
Bruce Willis stars in a scene from the movie "Death Wish." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive.
By Catholic News Service Even dressed up with some style and the presumption of wit, this remake is the same nihilistic racist vigilante fantasy that the five films in the first series were years ago. Director Eli Roth and screenwriter Joe Carnahan have set the tale of Paul Kersey, originally a New York architect played by […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 28, 2018 -
Movie Review
Jennifer Lawrence stars in a scene from the movie "Red Sparrow." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Gruesome violence and gratuitous sexual content ruin this otherwise engaging espionage thriller. Disabled in an onstage accident, a Russian ballet star (Jennifer Lawrence) is recruited by her uncle (Matthias Schoenaerts), a highly placed and ruthless intelligence official, to train as a seductress of foreign agents in a school (run by Charlotte […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 23, 2018 -
Movie Review
Angourie Rice and Justice Smith star in a scene from the movie "Every Day." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Orion Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Strange teen romance in which a high school student (Angourie Rice) falls for a spirit who inhabits the bodies of different people for a day at a time, originally encountering the androgynous sprite when it takes over her normally self-absorbed and inattentive boyfriend (Justice Smith), transforming him into the kind of […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 23, 2018 -
Movie Review
comedy, Jason Bateman, John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein, Kyle Chandler, Rachel McAdams
Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams star in a scene from the movie "Game Night." 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 Family values and much enjoyable humor are offset by numerous distasteful jokes and an excess of vulgar language in this comedy from directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. A competition-loving couple (Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams) find their usually placid game night transformed when his suave brother (Kyle Chandler) comes […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 23, 2018 -
Movie Review
Alex Garland, Gina Rodriguez, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, science fictiion
Natalie Portman stars in a scene from the movie "Annihilation." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Paramount)
By Catholic News Service After her husband (Oscar Isaac) returns as the lone survivor of a secret Army mission and falls mysteriously and critically ill, a soldier-turned-biologist (Natalie Portman) volunteers to join an expedition into the remote area he and his team had been dispatched to explore, which is being affected by an unexplained and […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 16, 2018 -
Movie Review
Hognob, voiced by Nick Park, and Dug, voiced by Eddie Redmayne, appear in the animated movie "Early Man." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service This enjoyably silly, generally family-friendly animated comedy pits a teenage caveman (voiced by Eddie Redmayne) and his tribe against a tyrant (voice of Tom Hiddleston) who wants to turn their home valley into a mine. Accidentally finding himself in the Bronze Age city the despot rules, the young troglodyte gets him […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 16, 2018 -
Movie Review
Taylor James stars in a scene from the movie "Sampson." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II --
adults and adolescents.
(CNS/Pure Flix)
By Catholic News Service Spirited biblically based drama in which the super-strong champion (Taylor James) of the oppressed Israelites skylarks with his younger brother (Greg Kriek), romances a Philistine gal (Francis Sholoto-Douglas) but also tangles with the wicked prince (Jackson Rathbone) who embodies that people’s tyrannical and exploitative rule over the occupied Promised Land. As […]
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By: The Catholic Post - February 16, 2018 -
Movie Review
Andy Serkis, Chadwick Boseman, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Martin Freeman, Marvel Comics, Michael B. Jordan
Lupita Nyong'o and Chadwick Boseman star in a scene from the movie "Black Panther." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Walt Disney Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Sprawling, energetic but ultimately overlong Marvel Comics adaptation from director and co-writer Ryan Coogler. The young sovereign (Chadwick Boseman) of an imaginary — and secret — African kingdom where the use of a super-powerful mineral has enabled the population to achieve both prosperity and a range of technological wonders unknown to […]
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