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Movie Review: ‘Babylon’
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Movie Review: ‘Babylon’

John MulderigDecember 22, 20222 min read
“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’
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Movie Review: ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’

John MulderigDecember 19, 20223 min read
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’
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Movie Review: ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’

John MulderigDecember 15, 20224 min read
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’
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Television Review: ‘Wednesday’

John MulderigDecember 12, 20224 min read
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’
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Pope enlists a willing warrior to spread the message of ‘Laudato Si’

Mark PattisonDecember 11, 20224 min read
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’
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Movie Review: ‘Violent Night’

John MulderigDecember 9, 20223 min read
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’
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Movie Review: ‘Devotion’

John MulderigDecember 7, 20222 min read
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’
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Movie Review: ‘Strange World’

John MulderigDecember 2, 20223 min read
‘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
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Director: Title of Polish cardinal’s biopic has dual meaning

Mark PattisonDecember 1, 20224 min read
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’
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Movie Review: ‘She Said’

John MulderigNovember 22, 20223 min read
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.
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