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By: The Catholic Post - January 10, 2018 -
Movie Review
Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep star in a scene from the movie "The Post." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Nostalgic account of The Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 has Meryl Streep as publisher Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks as editor Ben Bradlee fighting both the Nixon administration and their own notions of how journalists should behave around prominent public officials. Director Steven Spielberg, working from a […]
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By: The Catholic Post - January 5, 2018 -
Movie Review
Lin Shaye stars in a scene from the movie "Insidious: The Last Key." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service From its opening in a haunted house onward, this fourth installment in the good-natured franchise can be aptly summarized by the classic World War II-era lyric “I’ll be seeing you in all the old familiar places.” Lin Shaye, in her recurring role as a compassionate ghost-hunting parapsychologist, returns to the specter-ridden […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 22, 2017 -
Movie Review
Kristen Wiig and Matt Damon star in a scene from the movie "Downsizing." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Paramount)
By Catholic News Service What begins as a curious sci-fi fantasy about a futuristic technology people can use to shrink themselves (thereby dramatically reducing the toll they take on the environment) becomes a deeply humane, faith-tinged drama once a Midwestern suburbanite (Matt Damon) who has chosen to “go small” crosses paths with a Vietnamese refugee […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 22, 2017 -
Movie Review
Glenn Close, Owen Wilson and Ed Helms star in a scene from the movie "Father Figures." 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 Threadbare comedy about estranged fraternal twins (Owen Wilson and Ed Helms) who belatedly learn from their mother (Glenn Close) that the man she long ago told them was their deceased father was, in fact, just a friend of hers, and that their real dad may be alive — though her promiscuous […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 20, 2017 -
Movie Review
Hugh Jackman stars in a scene from the movie "The Greatest Showman." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Marital fidelity and family values in general are emphasized in this big, brash musical based on the life of pop entertainment pioneer P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman). The 19th-century impresario’s rise from poverty to worldwide fame is facilitated by his well-bred wife (Michelle Williams) and equally genteel partner (Zac Efron). But tensions […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 20, 2017 -
Movie Review
Rebel Wilson and Anna Kendrick star in a scene from the movie "Pitch Perfect 3." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Discordant and exceedingly unfunny musical comedy, directed by Trish Sie. The members of an award-winning a capella singing group (Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Rebel Wilson and Anna Camp, among others) have graduated from college and entered the real world. Job prospects are slim, and they long to reunite and sing again. […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 20, 2017 -
Movie Review
Karen Gillan, Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart star in a scene from the movie "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service Amusing comic adventure in which a quartet of teens (Alex Wolff, Ser’Darius Blain, Madison Iseman and Morgan Turner) find themselves magically transported into an old video game where they inhabit the avatars they chose before the start of play (Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan). Most of the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 20, 2017 -
Movie Review
Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg star in a scene from the movie "All the Money in the World." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Sony)
By Catholic News Service By turns suspenseful, darkly comic and stridently moral, this slightly fictionalized account of the famous 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer), the grandson of his billionaire namesake (Christopher Plummer), makes a strong case that immense wealth not only can’t buy happiness, it also imposes depths of misery that […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 17, 2017 -
Movie Review
The animated character Ferdinand appears in the movie "Ferdinand." The Catholic News Service classification is A-I, general patronage. (CNS/Blue Sky Studios)
By Catholic News Service Good values help to redeem a somewhat padded plot in this animated adaptation of Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s 1936 children’s classic “The Story of Ferdinand,” directed by Carlos Saldanha. Escaping the confines of the stable in which he and other bulls are prepared for their fateful confrontation with a matador, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - December 17, 2017 -
Movie Review
John Boyega and Gwendoline Christie star in a scene from the movie "Star Wars: The Last Jedi." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service Engrossing sci-fi epic in which the leading general (Carrie Fisher) of an embattled group of rebels sends a messenger (Daisy Ridley) to the distant planet on which her brother (Mark Hamill), a famed warrior, is living in self-imposed exile to summon his help in the desperate struggle against their fascistic enemies […]
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