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By: The Catholic Post - April 6, 2016 -
Movie Review
Hayley Orrantia stars in a scene from the movie "God's Not Dead 2." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS/Pure Flix)
By Catholic News Service Flawed religious drama in which a history teacher (Melissa Joan Hart) at a public high school, who is also a committed evangelical believer, gets in hot water for quoting the New Testament in class. With her job on the line, she heads into a court battle backed by an untried but […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 29, 2016 -
Movie Review
Nia Vardalos and John Corbett star in a scene from the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Universal)
By Catholic News Service The close-knit Hellenic family featured in the 2002 original — loving, clingy, earthy and in your face at all the most inopportune moments — returns in this romantic comedy, but without the zest of that first outing. The problem is not so much the ambling plot, which involves marital strains between […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 24, 2016 -
Movie Review
Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill star in a scene from the movie "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Warner Bros.)
By Catholic News Service The titans of the DC Comics universe battle it out in this follow-up to 2013’s Superman reboot, “Man of Steel,” once again directed by Zack Snyder. The Dark Knight (Ben Affleck) grows to resent the death and destruction wrought as collateral damage in the clash between Krypton’s favorite son (Henry Cavill) […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 24, 2016 -
Movie Review
Jennifer Garner, Queen Latifah and Kylie Rogers star in a scene from the movie "Miracles From Heaven." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS photo/Columbia Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Remarkable fact-based story of a 10-year-old Texas girl (Kylie Rogers) who develops a rare, painful and incurable disease that prevents her body from digesting food. Though her parents (Jennifer Garner and Martin Henderson) are both churchgoers, persistent Mom — after struggling to obtain a correct diagnosis and access to the care […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 24, 2016 -
Movie Review
Shailene Woodley and Andy Bean star in a scene from the movie "The Divergent Series: Allegiant." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service Third time’s not a charm with this ponderous adaptation of the final book of the futuristic trilogy by Veronica Roth, the sequel to “The Divergent Series: Insurgent,” directed by Robert Schwentke. Having brought down the wicked faction system that divided families in post-apocalyptic Chicago, our heroine (Shailene Woodley) and her mentor-lover […]
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By: Tom Dermody - March 15, 2016 -
Movie Review
Terrence Jenkins and Paula Patton star in the movie "The Perfect Match." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Lionsgate)
By Catholic News Service This so-called romantic comedy follows the sexual escapades of a womanizing Southern California talent agent and photographer (Terrence J.) who puts his one-night stands on hold after falling for a mysterious stranger (Cassie Ventura). The triumph of true love would please his concerned therapist sister (Paula Patton). But the example provided […]
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By: Tom Dermody - March 15, 2016 -
Movie Review
John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Gallagher Jr. star in a scene from the movie "10 Cloverfield Lane." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Paramount Pictures)
By Catholic News Service Audacious, witty, intelligent and skillfully made, this bracing combination of suspense and science fiction from director Dan Trachtenberg is also refreshingly free of vulgarity. Held captive in an underground bunker by a paranoid and possibly murderous survivalist (John Goodman) who insists he saved her from an apocalyptic event in the wider […]
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By: Tom Dermody - March 15, 2016 -
Movie Review
Sacha Baron Cohen and Mark Strong star in a scene from the movie "The Brothers Grimsby." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Sony Pictures)
By Catholic News Service When a bumbling halfwit (Sacha Baron Cohen) from a poverty-stricken town in Northern England reunites with his long-lost brother (Mark Strong), a skilled secret agent, he not only compromises his sibling’s undercover operation but makes it appear that the operative has turned traitor. So the two are forced to hide out […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 15, 2016 -
Movie Review
Adam Greaves-Neal stars in a scene from the movie "The Young Messiah." The Catholic News Service classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. (CNS photo/Focus)
By Catholic News Service This engaging dramatization remains faithful to the underlying message of scripture even as it speculates about the childhood of Jesus (played here, age 7, by Adam Greaves-Neal), a topic on which the Gospels are virtually silent. As Joseph (Vincent Walsh) leads his family back from exile in Egypt, he and Mary (Sara […]
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By: The Catholic Post - March 10, 2016 -
Movie Review
Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart star in a scene from the movie "London Has Fallen." The Catholic News Service classification is O -- morally offensive. (CNS/Focus Features)
By Catholic News Service In the equally improbable and considerably more pitiless sequel to 2013’s “Olympus Has Fallen,” a Secret Service agent (Gerard Butler) must once again protect the U.S. president (Aaron Eckhart) after insurgents controlled by a vengeful Pakistani arms dealer (Alon Moni Aboutboul) devastate the British capital and imperil world leaders gathered for […]
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