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By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2016 -
Movie Review
Jack Huston stars in a scene from the movie " Ben-Hur." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc)
By Catholic News Service Though reasonably satisfying as an action picture, this iteration of Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel suffers from a poorly written script that fails to convince when the classic story’s religious theme comes to the fore. First-century Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston) lives a prosperous life in Jerusalem where he carries on […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2016 -
Movie Review
Kubo, voiced by Art Parkinson, is seen in the animated movie "Kubo and the Two Strings." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Focus Features)
By Catholic News Service Captivating animated fable about a Japanese street urchin (voice of Art Parkinson) whose troubled family history launches him on a quest for a magical set of armor. He’s accompanied, and protected, on the journey by a prudent monkey (voiced by Charlize Theron) and by a courageous but accursed samurai (voice of […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2016 -
Movie Review
Meryl Streep and Simon Helberg star in a scene from the movie "Florence Foster Jenkins." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Paramount)
By Catholic News Service Moral complications limit the appropriate audience for director Stephen Frears’ charmingly eccentric, fact-based profile of the titular New York socialite (Meryl Streep) whose yearning to take to the stage as a singer of operatic arias and similar works, though motivated by a genuine love of music, was undercut by her spectacular […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2016 -
Movie Review
Oakes Fegley stars in a scene from the movie "Pete's Dragon." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service The classic boy-and-his-dog story assumes outsized proportions in this generally warmhearted fantasy adventure, a “reimagining” of the 1977 Disney musical. This go-round, song and dance have been jettisoned, and hokeyness gives way to thrilling action and tear-jerking moments. Orphaned by a tragic accident, a toddler (Levi Alexander) wanders into a remote […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 19, 2016 -
Movie Review
Food characters are shown in a scene from the animated movie "Sausage Party." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive.CNS/Sony Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Animated food items push an atheist agenda and glorify the basest forms of carnality in this disgusting spitball of a comedy from directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan. The inhabitants of a suburban supermarket — most prominently a sausage (voice of Seth Rogen) and his girlfriend, a bun (voice of Kristen […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 11, 2016 -
Movie Review
Melina Weissman, Kevin Spacey and Christopher Walken star in a scene from the movie "Nine Lives." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/EuropaCorp)
By Catholic News Service The formidable Kevin Spacey wanders through this wreck of a comedy playing a callous business tycoon who learns important life lessons when he’s forced, temporarily, to inhabit the body of a cat. This transformation, brought about in fulfillment of some dark hints about the mogul’s future made by the vaguely mysterious […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 11, 2016 -
Movie Review
Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg star in a scene from the movie "Cafe Society." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Writer-director Woody Allen’s seriocomic look at romance follows a Depression-era Bronx lad (Jesse Eisenberg) to Los Angeles, where he gets a job with his uncle (Steve Carell), a powerful Hollywood agent. But when his relationship with the agent’s lissome secretary (Kristen Stewart) leads to disillusionment, he returns to New York to […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 4, 2016 -
Movie Review
Jared Leo and Margot Robbie star in a scene from the movie "Suicide Squad." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Clay Enos, Warner Bros. Entertainment)
By Catholic News Service A lurid atmosphere marks this initially stylish but ultimately ridiculous and chaotic DC comics-based adventure. A hard-bitten intelligence agent (Viola Davis) assembles a team of violent villains (most prominently Will Smith and Margot Robbie), places them under the command of the military’s leading special ops warrior (Joel Kinnaman), and compels them […]
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By: The Catholic Post - August 4, 2016 -
Movie Review
By Catholic News Service Challenging drama, set in the early 1950s, in which a young Jewish man (Logan Lerman) wins a scholarship to an elite college where he forms an unusual bond with an emotionally troubled fellow student (Sarah Gadon) and butts heads with the school’s traditionally minded dean (Tracy Letts). While writer-director James Schamus’ […]
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By: The Catholic Post - July 30, 2016 -
Movie Review
Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn star in a scene from "Bad Moms." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/STX Productions)
By Catholic News Service A stressed-out suburban mother (Mila Kunis) rebels against her taxing daily routine, demanding that her kids (Emjay Anthony and Oona Laurence) start fending for themselves in minor ways and indulging herself by skipping work, drinking and relaxing. Aided by two other like-minded moms — one a timid housewife (Kristen Bell), the […]
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