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Movie & Television Reviews

Movie Review: ‘Babylon’

December 22, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

“Babylon” (Paramount), writer-director Damien Chazelle’s sprawling recreation of Hollywood shortly before and after the advent of talkies, is a film of undeniable artistic intent. Yet its considerable aesthetic strong points are overshadowed by both overt content and an underlying tone that viewers of faith will feel compelled to reject.

Movie Review: ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’

December 19, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Frenetic action sequences are interspersed with a series of gentle moral lessons in the entertaining animated adventure “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (Universal).

Movie Review: ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’

December 15, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

The “Way of the Water” script returns viewers to the fictional moon Pandora and continues the story of the kickoff’s two principal characters, the avatar of Earth-born ex-Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and his Pandoran warrior wife, Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña).

Television Review: ‘Wednesday’

December 12, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Tim Burton steps forward as director of “Wednesday,” a spin-off named for, and focused on, the comically macabre Addams family’s daughter. All eight episodes of the series, which stars Jenna Ortega in the title role, are streaming on Netflix.

Pope enlists a willing warrior to spread the message of ‘Laudato Si’

December 11, 2022
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Environment, Movie & Television Reviews, Vatican

Nicolas Brown directed “The Letter: A Message for Our Earth,” a documentary on the pope’s 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.”

Movie Review: ‘Violent Night’

December 9, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

The upshot of “Violent NIght” is a strange blend of bloody mayhem and rank sentimentality that goes down like a gulp of sour eggnog.

Movie Review: ‘Devotion’

December 7, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

Jonathan Majors portrays Jesse L. Brown in the war epic “Devotion” (Sony), a film that chronicles both the travails the flyer faced and his partnership with fellow aviator Tom Hudner (Glen Powell).

Movie Review: ‘Strange World’

December 2, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

‘Strange World’ tells the story of the Clade family, denizens of an imaginary realm called Avalonia.

Director: Title of Polish cardinal’s biopic has dual meaning

December 1, 2022
By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

The movie “PROFIT,” a biopic about 20th-century Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, delves into the Polish Communist Party’s yearslong operation to delegitimize him.

Movie Review: ‘She Said’

November 22, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Working from Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor’s 2019 bestseller, director Maria Schrader depicts the dogged determination of the newswomen, the courage and resilience of their victimized sources and, ultimately, the power of journalism to reveal wrongdoing. Although their efforts take a toll on family life, both leading characters are shown to be in strong marriages.

TV Review: ‘Fleishman is in Trouble’

November 22, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews

Honorable underlying values and believable characters are sabotaged by excessively explicit sexual content in the limited drama series “Fleishman is in Trouble.”

Movie Review: ‘The Fabelmans’

November 16, 2022
By John Mulderig
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews

Set in the 1950s and ’60s, The Fablemans recounts the childhood and adolescence of Steven Spielberg’s fictional counterpart, Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle).

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