T.V. Review: ‘One of Us Is Lying’ October 13, 2021By Chris Byrd Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews Overall, the show makes for a tiresome course in youthful amorality. So viewers would be well-advised to opt for a different elective.
T.V. Review: ‘Midnight Mass’ October 7, 2021By Chris Byrd Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews While the series takes an ambiguous approach in its treatment of faith, “Midnight Mass” is logically flawed as well as lurid.
Movie Review: ‘The Addams Family 2’ October 6, 2021By Joseph McAleer Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews In the animated comedy “The Addams Family 2,” the beloved characters from the imagination of Charles Addams are as creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky as ever, and the humor remains dark and macabre, but overall good-natured.
Movie Review: ‘Cry Macho’ September 24, 2021By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews Clint Eastwood directed and stars in the gentle, though naive, road movie “Cry Macho” (Warner Bros.).
Movie Review: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ September 23, 2021By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News Director Stephen Chbosky’s screen version of the award-winning 2016 Broadway hit is marked, overall, by upright fundamental values.
Movie Review: ‘Cinderella’ September 16, 2021By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News Writer-director Kay Cannon’s screechy romance “Cinderella” (Amazon) is an obnoxious corruption of the classic folk tale, the most familiar version of which was penned by French writer Charles Perrault in the 17th century.
Movie Review: ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ September 8, 2021By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News A spry wit paces the elegant martial-arts showdowns in director and co-writer Destin Daniel Cretton’s Marvel Comics-derived adventure “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.”
Movie Review: ‘Candyman’ August 27, 2021By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, World News By the time of its conclusion, “Candyman” has degenerated into a fantasy of racial revenge wholly at odds with Gospel values.
Movie Review: ‘PAW Patrol: The Movie’ August 25, 2021By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Movie & Television Reviews, World News With the arrival of “PAW Patrol: The Movie” (Paramount), the titular rescue crew of pups bring their adventures to a multiplex near you. The result is a breezy, tenderhearted film suitable for all.
Movie Review: ‘The Protege’ August 20, 2021By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, World News Director Martin Campbell’s sleek yet brutal thriller “The Protege” (Lionsgate) not only depicts the activities of its principal characters, all of them assassins, in unsparing bloody detail. It also presents its own alternate version of morality.
Movie Review: ‘Reminiscence’ August 20, 2021By John Mulderig Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, World News Part dystopian adventure, part neo-noir mystery, “Reminiscence” (Warner Bros.) is undone by its own sense of importance.
Movie Review: ‘CODA’ August 10, 2021By Sister Hosea Rupprecht Catholic News Service Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News The challenges of being the only hearing member of a close-knit family are movingly explored in the drama “CODA” (Apple TV+), the title of which is an acronym for child of deaf adults. That phrase describes the situation of the film’s main character, 17-year-old Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones).
