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By: The Catholic Post - October 7, 2016 -
Movie Review
Emily Blunt stars in a scene from the movie "The Girl on the Train." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive.(CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Seamy suburban melodrama about the intersecting lives of an unemployed alcoholic (Emily Blunt), her ex-husband (Justin Theroux), his new wife (Rebecca Ferguson) and a couple (Haley Bennett and Luke Evans) who live in the same neighborhood. In adapting Paula Hawkins’ best-selling novel, director Tate Taylor elicits an intense performance from Blunt, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 5, 2016 -
Movie Review
Eva Green, Asa Butterfield and Georgia Pemberton star in a scene from the movie "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Fox)
By Catholic News Service Following the mysterious death of his beloved grandfather (Terence Stamp), a Florida teen (Asa Butterfield) convinces his dad (Chris O’Dowd) to take him to the remote island off the coast of Wales where the old man had been sent during World War II to see if the otherworldly tales grandpa used […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 5, 2016 -
Movie Review
Jon Daly and Leslie Jones star in a scene from the movie "Masterminds." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Relativity Studios)
By Catholic News Service This vehicle for Zach Galifianakis and a group of drawling actors from NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” is a comic recounting of the 1997 “hillbilly heist” from an armored-car firm in North Carolina. Galifianakis plays David Ghantt, who stole $17.3 million from Loomis Fargo & Co., only to be tripped up at […]
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By: The Catholic Post - October 5, 2016 -
Movie Review
Dylan O'Brien and Mark Wahlberg star in a scene from the movie "Deepwater Horizon." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Forceful but grim dramatization of events surrounding the 2010 disaster that destroyed the titular drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Drawing on a New York Times article by David Barstow, David Rohde and Stephanie Saul, screenwriters Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand fix their focus on a quartet of principals: the […]
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By: Jennifer Willems - September 29, 2016 -
Movie Review
Animated characters Tulip (voiced by Katie Crown) and Junior (voiced by Andy Samberg) appear in the movie "Storks." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Warner Brothers)
By Catholic News Service Occasionally funny but mostly awkward animated comedy in which the plans of an ambitious stork (voice of Andy Samberg) who’s been tapped by his boss (voice of Kelsey Grammer) to take over the big-box store shipping system his breed now operates in lieu of delivering babies are derailed when a human […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 23, 2016 -
Movie Review
Byung-hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ethan Hawke, Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Vincent D'Onofrio and Martin Sensmeier star in a scene from the movie "The Magnificent Seven." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/MGM)
By Catholic News Service After a ruthless gold-mining mogul (Peter Sarsgaard) uses his private army of thugs to slaughter several inhabitants of a frontier town in cold blood, and threatens the survivors with a similar fate unless they sell their land to him for a pittance, the widow (Haley Bennett) of one of his victims […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 23, 2016 -
Movie Review
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in a scene from the movie "Snowden." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Open Road Films)
By Catholic News Service Interesting but one-sided and overlong biography of Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the controversial former intelligence officer who, in 2013, revealed to the press the existence of a secret National Security Agency program for the collection of mass data that he considered abusive. As Snowden recalls the events of his life, beginning […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 16, 2016 -
Movie Review
Wes Robinson and Valorie Curry star in a scene from the movie "Blair Witch." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service The brother of the girl who disappeared in 1999’s “The Blair Witch Project” leads an expedition into the woods around Burkittsville, Maryland, seeking an ancient witch who predictably outsmarts this group of young campers. Director Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett don’t try to do much with the “found footage” conceit […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 16, 2016 -
Movie Review
Emma Thompson and Renee Zellweger star in a scene from the movie "Bridget Jones's Baby." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service British writer Helen Fielding’s klutzy diarist (Renee Zellweger) resurfaces in a charming romantic comedy that proves middle-aged characters are more than capable of combining love and laughter to life-affirming effect. Forty-three-year-old Bridget, a successful television news producer, is pregnant but doesn’t know whether the American founder of a matchmaking website (Patrick […]
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By: The Catholic Post - September 14, 2016 -
Movie Review
Marcia DeRousse and Kate Beckinsale star in a scene from the movie"The Disappointments Room." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Rogue)
By Catholic News Service A combination of psychological drama and the dependable haunted-house formula turns into a complete botch. A grieving architect (Kate Beckinsale) moves to a creaky old mansion with her husband and young son to restore her mental health following the death of their infant daughter, but she ends up confronting ghosts of […]
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