Disney’s ‘Wish’ Unfulfillment
FILM REVIEW: The Mouse’s latest offering is startlingly unfulfilling as entertainment and just as vacuous in terms of having any real wisdom to share.
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Postmodern ‘Barbie’: Grown-Ups Playing Badly With Kids’ Toys
FILM REVIEW: There are lots of pretty things to look at, but this movie is hobbled by its need to be liked.
Breaking Its Own Rules: Pixar’s Inexcusable ‘Elemental’
COMMENTARY: The studio’s muddled latest offering astoundingly violates many of the company’s ‘22 Rules of Storytelling.’
Risk Everything: A Study of Heroism in ‘A Small Light’
A unique new series offers a rare and uncompromising challenge to viewers to step up and stay true to what is right when life suddenly invites us to be great...
Are You There, Beauty? It’s That ‘Margaret’ Movie
As a work of cinematic storytelling, this is stunning work. But what about the Judy Blume problem?
‘The Way’ Returns to Theaters — Because Pilgrimage Is Always a Good Idea
COMMENTARY: ‘Every pilgrimage is a journey to your own heart,’ actor Martin Sheen told the Register ahead of the film’s re-release May 16.
Two New Films About the Devil — ‘Nefarious’ and ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’
I’m giving ‘Nefarious’ and ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’ qualified recommendations for adults in the name of ‘proper scaring.’
20 Years With ‘The Passion of the Christ’
FILM: Lyrical imagery adds so much theological meaning to meditative movie.
