Gladiator II (2024)
70%
“Watching Gladiator II, it is hard not to be a little suspicious about exactly what we are longing for in our Roman fantasies.” –
The Christian Century
Jan 28, 2025
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The Wild Robot (2024)
96%
“The Wild Robot is better than most -- most other kids’ movies and maybe most other philosophies, too.” –
The Christian Century
Nov 24, 2024
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Sing Sing (2023)
97%
““Show, don’t tell,” a good director will tell you, and one of the easiest ways to show the power of the theater is to experience it yourself—or to watch someone else experience it. ” –
The Christian Century
Sep 17, 2024
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Ghostlight (2024)
99%
“It is one of those overblown statements theater people love to make about the power of the theater. We might even laugh a little bit, if we hadn’t just witnessed it happening before our very eyes.” –
The Christian Century
Sep 17, 2024
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Fly Me to the Moon (2024)
65%
“It's not a great movie...it’s half-baked both as a breezy romantic comedy and as a stirring patriotic ode...but I appreciate how it understands the fundamental distrust toward manipulation that sits at the heart of conspiracy thinking.” –
The Christian Century
Aug 6, 2024
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Civil War (2024)
81%
“Rather than glorifying war, the film is artful and meditative, making us feel the pointlessness of this violence, how unglamorous and exhausting and unheroic it is.” –
The Christian Century
Aug 6, 2024
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Babes (2024)
88%
“It does offer us a new vision of growing up, one that rejects the dichotomy between serious adulthood and the joy of friendship—one in which there might be existence beyond exhaustion. This is something to take very seriously.” –
The Christian Century
Jun 24, 2024
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Wicked Little Letters (2023)
80%
“It is a lighthearted film that doesn’t fully grasp the red-hot rage at its center.” –
The Christian Century
May 6, 2024
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The Holdovers (2023)
97%
“If 2024 might finally break the stranglehold of franchise storytelling, may The Holdovers be the harbinger of what's to come.” –
The Christian Century
Jan 26, 2024
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American Fiction (2023)
93%
“Characters learn from each other, they grow and change—but not completely, and life keeps going. This used to be the basic form of most movies, but now it feels rare and precious.” –
The Christian Century
Jan 26, 2024
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Eileen (2023)
82%
“The story is meant to make us a little queasy, our initial judgments called up short. But it is a mistake to think that our own discomfort implies that these films have only vague or shallow moral vision.” –
The Christian Century
Dec 29, 2023
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May December (2023)
91%
“A brilliant addition to a specialized genre of films.” –
The Christian Century
Dec 29, 2023
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
93%
“In Martin Scorcese’s telling of the Osage Indian murders, all the violent contradictions of history unfold in domestic intimacy.” –
The Christian Century
Dec 4, 2023
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Bottoms (2023)
91%
“The characters are confused and frustrated, but ultimately so much wiser than I could ever imagine being at 16.” –
The Christian Century
Oct 27, 2023
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Barbie (2023)
88%
“Barbie is not a perfect movie, but it is a conversation, and a conversation worth having. For me, Barbie brought the unexpected pleasure of finding shared experiences in our fractured, factious age. ” –
The Christian Century
Aug 25, 2023
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Asteroid City (2023)
76%
“For the first time in a while, I remembered what it felt like to be all in with Anderson, and it made me want to watch all over again.” –
The Christian Century
Jul 24, 2023
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Air (2023)
93%
“These movies don’t really want to explain that magical transformation as much as participate in the magic themselves.” –
The Christian Century
Jun 22, 2023
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Tetris (2023)
81%
“Even though my best friend got a Game Boy in 1990 with Tetris in the box, I was on the edge of my seat to see how the deal would close.” –
The Christian Century
Jun 22, 2023
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BlackBerry (2023)
97%
“[It] turns what would be a boring story about corporate strategy into high stakes drama.” –
The Christian Century
Jun 22, 2023
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Flamin' Hot (2023)
67%
“The suspense and drama of the commodity biopic work without the need for either accuracy or mystery.” –
The Christian Century
Jun 22, 2023
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023)
99%
“Fremon Craig’s film captures the joyful, curious, respectful perspective that has made Blume’s book such a mainstay of contemporary coming-of-age stories because it trusts its middle school protagonists.” –
The Christian Century
May 26, 2023
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Broker (2022)
94%
“Like a song worming its way into your consciousness in the rainy night air, Kore-eda offers us a film about all the ways we can learn the transformative possibilities of forgiveness, including from the movies.” –
The Christian Century
Apr 14, 2023
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Women Talking (2022)
90%
“Women Talking examines the collective power of women’s words for a MeToo era.” –
The Christian Century
Feb 27, 2023
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She Said (2022)
88%
“She Said is remarkably restrained, almost muted.” –
The Christian Century
Feb 27, 2023
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
91%
“A murder mystery can provide sharp social commentary—and great fun.” –
The Christian Century
Jan 13, 2023
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