By: The Catholic Post - March 1, 2021 -
Movie Review
Benedict Cumberbatch, Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in a scene from the movie "The Mauritanian." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. (CNS/Graham Bartholomew, STXfilms)
By Catholic News Service Director Kevin Macdonald’s fact-based film doesn’t adhere to the conventions of a legal drama or a police procedural. Instead, it focuses on the moral implications of the struggle to free a falsely accused prisoner (Tahar Rahim), with brilliant results. In adapting Mohamedou Ould Salahi’s 2015 memoir “Guantanamo Diary,” screenwriters M.B. Traven, […]
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By: The Catholic Post - June 11, 2018 -
Movie Review
Dave Bautista, Drew Pearce, Jeff Goldblum, Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown
Dave Bautista and Jodie Foster star in a scene from the movie "Hotel Artemis." The Catholic News Service classification is L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. (CNS/Global Road Entertainment)
By Catholic News Service The hostelry of the title is, in fact, a secret, strongly secured hospital for criminals in the dystopian Los Angeles of the near future. As the riot-torn city spirals into chaos, a cross-section of underworld types seeks shelter there, under the protection of the clinic’s troubled, eccentric head nurse (Jodie Foster) […]
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