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“Vice” (Annapurna)

By: The Catholic Post   -   December 27, 2018   -   Movie Review Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Sam Rockwell, Steve Carell

Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Sam Rockwell and Andrea Wright star in a scene from the movie "Vice." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Annapurna Pictures)

By Catholic News Service This biography of former Vice President Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) is a gleeful hatchet job in which he comes off as Machiavellian, black-hearted and more demonic than human. The only figure who emerges in even darker tones is his political mentor, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (Steve Carell), who schemes and […]