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John Mulderig

Catholic News Service is a leading agency for religious news. Its mission is to report fully, fairly and freely on the involvement of the church in the world today.

Movie review: ‘The Batman’

March 7, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

Viewers will find themselves thoroughly absorbed by “The Batman” (Warner Bros.). Director and co-writer Matt Reeves’ reboot of the DC Comics-based franchise is a darkly powerful affair, and its script — penned with Peter Craig — plays with the interesting question whether the iconic crimefighter of the title is, in fact, a hero.

Movie Review: ‘Dog’

March 2, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin have co-directed a fictional riff on dogs in war, and the result is the quirky, good-natured — but not family-friendly — road movie “Dog” (MGM).

Movie Review: ‘Uncharted’

February 23, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

A thin stringing together of stunts, “Uncharted” (Columbia) is a tiresome treasure hunt tale, adapted from a series of video games by director Ruben Fleischer.

Movie Review: ‘Marry Me’

February 16, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

For most of its running time, the romantic comedy “Marry Me” (Universal) registers as an amiable, if unlikely, fantasy whose script, penned by John Rogers and Tami Sagher, shows some inclination toward traditional values.

Movie Review: ‘Moonfall’

February 4, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

One way to grab moviegoers’ attention is to threaten those on screen with doomsday. It’s a tactic director Roland Emmerich has resorted to repeatedly and to which he returns with “Moonfall,” a sullen science-fiction fantasy.

Movie Review: ‘Munich: The Edge of War’

January 27, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

Jeremy Irons as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain dominates the historical drama “Munich: The Edge of War” (Netflix).

A look at the Top 10 best movies overall and best family films of 2021

January 21, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

Reviews of the Top 10 movies overall and seven of the best family films of 2021 as selected by the Media Review Office of Catholic News Service.

Movie Review: ‘Hotel Transylvania: Transformania’

January 20, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

“Hotel Transylvania: Transformania” — the fourth installment in the animated franchise, primarily populated by iconic figures from classic horror films, that kicked off in 2012 — conceals no threatening fangs. In fact, it suffers from the opposite problem; it lacks bite.

Movie Review: ‘The Matrix Resurrections’

December 21, 2021
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

You wouldn’t care to spend the rest of your life floating unconscious in a pod full of goo, would you? Well, neither would Keanu Reeves, and so we get “The Matrix Resurrections” (Warner Bros.), the fourth film in the blockbuster sci-fi series that first hit screens way back in 1999.

Movie Review: ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’

December 16, 2021
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

Action, humor and drama are skillfully combined in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (Columbia), the lavish final installment of a trilogy of films starring Tom Holland as the Marvel Comics superhero.

Movie Review: ‘Nightmare Alley’

December 7, 2021
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

The title “Nightmare Alley” (Searchlight) at least gives moviegoers fair warning of what awaits them in director and co-writer Guillermo del Toro’s noir-inspired screen version of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel, scripted with Kim Morgan.

Movie Review: ‘West Side Story’

December 3, 2021
By John Mulderig
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

What do you get when you combine composer Leonard Bernstein, lyricist Stephen Sondheim, playwright Arthur Laurents and choreographer Jerome Robbins, then throw director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner into the mix?

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