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By: The Catholic Post - May 4, 2016 -
Movie Review
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele star in a scene from the movie "Keanu." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Satirical action-comedy starring Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele as nerdy African-Americans who must pose as murderous thugs — and mingle with drug-slinging Los Angeles gangsters — to recover the purloined kitten of the title. As honed on their Comedy Central television series, Key and Peele’s brand of socially aware humor frequently […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 4, 2016 -
Movie Review
Ratchet, center, voiced by James Arnold Taylor, appears in the animated movie "Ratchet & Clank." The Catholic News Service classification is A-I -- general patronage. (CNS/Gramercy Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Busy 3-D visuals fail to mask the flat tone and by-the-numbers storytelling of this animated sci-fi adventure from co-directors Kevin Munroe and Jericca Cleland. After failing in his effort to join a team of glamorous intergalactic peacekeepers (their leader voiced by Jim Ward), a catlike mechanic (voice of James Arnold Taylor) […]
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By: The Catholic Post - May 4, 2016 -
Movie Review
Ayden Bivek, Kate Hudson and Aasif Mandvi star in a scene from the movie "Mother's Day." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS photo/Open Road)
By Catholic News Service Set in Atlanta, this sprawling ensemble comedy takes on, among other themes, divorce (Jennifer Aniston and Timothy Olyphant), marital secrets (Kate Hudson and Aasif Mandvi), parental prejudice (Margo Martindale and Robert Pine) and life after loss (Jason Sudeikis). Considerable focus and aplomb would be required to keep an audience engaged with […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 25, 2016 -
Movie Review
Carrie Gershon and Aaron Paul star in a scene from the movie "Eye in the Sky." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Bleecker Street)
By Catholic News Service Moral quandaries are superbly explored in this suspenseful military drama, which examines a sprawling topic, the war on terrorism, by keeping its focus fixed on the potential consequences of a single operation on an individual life. A British colonel (Helen Mirren) prepares a drone attack intended to kill a radicalized British […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 22, 2016 -
Movie Review
Chris Hemsworth and Jessica Chastain star in a scene from the movie "The Huntsman: Winter's War." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service Positioned to bookend the action of 2012’s “Snow White and the Huntsman,” this lavishly-staged adventure — at once a prequel and a sequel to the original — is well intentioned but dull and derivative. Director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan and screenwriters Evan Spiliotopoulos and Craig Mazin have doubled up on everything from the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 15, 2016 -
Movie Review
Kevin Costner, center, stars in a scene from the movie "Criminal." 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 Hollow mind-swap yarn in which the memory of a CIA agent (Ryan Reynolds) who was killed while delivering ransom money is transferred into the brain of a sociopathic murderer (Kevin Costner). As presented in Douglas Cook and David Weisberg’s script, the general idea appears to be that if a smart guy’s […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 15, 2016 -
Movie Review
Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Bell star in a scene from the movie "The Boss." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service After a prison stint for insider trading, a disgraced businesswoman (Melissa McCarthy, who also co-wrote the script) moves in with her former assistant (Kristen Bell) and the secretary’s preteen daughter (Ella Anderson). While minding the youngster, she strikes on the idea of staging a comeback by starting a for-profit version of […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 15, 2016 -
Movie Review
Anthony Anderson, Common and Cedric the Entertainer star in a scene from the movie "Barbershop: The Next Cut." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service Earnest but heavy-handed debates about how to deal with gang violence are interspersed with frequently vulgar jokes in this seriocomic portrayal of life on Chicago’s South Side. With the shop of the title now augmented by a beauty parlor (led by Regina Hall), much of the barbed chitchat exchanged between the […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 15, 2016 -
Movie Review
Neel Sethi stars in a scene from the movie "The Jungle Book." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Disney)
By Catholic News Service This adaptation of British author Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 collection of stories about the adventures of a “man-cub” (Neel Sethi) raised by animals offers delightful, good-natured, heartfelt entertainment for the entire family, the most easily frightened tots possibly excepted. Orphaned as a baby, the boy is led by a kindly panther (voice […]
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By: The Catholic Post - April 6, 2016 -
Movie Review
Bresha Webb and Mike Epps star in a scene from the movie "Meet the Blacks." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Hidden Empire Film Group)
By Catholic News Service A sloppy assemblage of tasteless jokes, rampant profanity and lewd sexual behavior comprises this wretched comedy, directed and co-written by Deon Taylor. An African-American family relocates from Chicago to an all-white gated community in Beverly Hills, California. The patriarch (Mike Epps) hopes for a better life for his wife (Zulay Henao) […]
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