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David (2025) Peter T. Chattaway There’s plenty to enjoy, from the gorgeous visuals to the stirring music and the clearly articulated lessons about faith and courage. David may be a children’s film at heart, but it’s one that raises the bar for faith-based animation as a whole.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Paul Marchbanks Wicked: For Good rightly suggests that what frightens us more than loss or physical harm is the evil deep within ourselves.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Mia Staub At its core, Wake Up Dead Man is an entertaining murder mystery. It’s also rife with religious imagery and allegory. Christian viewers might enjoy a richer watching experience because they’ll get all the symbolism.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Carpenter's Son (2025) Peter T. Chattaway It wallows in anger and affliction.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Brad East Del Toro is an inspired director and Shelley’s novel is a classic, but this adaptation is a mess. It has its moments and its virtues. But in the end it fails to match either the depth of the source material or the richness of del Toro’s other films.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Nuremberg (2025) Myles Werntz Standout performances by Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, and Michael Shannon help transform this courtroom drama into an exploration of how evil works.
Posted Nov 12, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Dane Rich One Battle After Another is another great movie from the skilled hands of Anderson, and it delivers a relevant message for our own frenzied time. But it also lacks an eschatology of love.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Ruth & Boaz (2025) Haleluya Hadero For all the effort it takes trying to force an old story into our modern context of HR and sexual consent norms, the film also chooses not to explore some of the biggest plot points of the biblical narrative
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
Sugarcane (2024) Valerie Red-Horse Mohl The night after watching Sugarcane, I couldn’t sleep. I’d cringed, screamed, and wept through the movie, and now I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
Posted Aug 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Apocalypse in the Tropics (2024) Valdinei Ferreira The documentary’s mistake in adopting dominion theology as the primary explanation for the evangelical advance in politics does not diminish its merits. Apocalypse in the Tropics remains a valuable starting point for reflection.
Posted Jul 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Elio (2025) Mia Staub Elio is classic Pixar; I was crying within 15 minutes and regretted not bringing tissues to the theater.
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Mia Staub The style of The Phoenician Scheme doesn’t match the substance. But that substance is still compelling. Underneath the wheeling and dealing is a more powerful story: The agnostic businessman’s relationship with his Catholic daughter.
Posted Jun 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Friendship (2024) Paul Marchbanks Like the comedies Superstar and Napoleon Dynamite, which lay pariahs’ amusing problems at their own feet, Friendship implies that those without the right personality type will forever be stuck at a primitive stage of development.
Posted Jun 09, 2025  Edit critic review
The Life of Chuck (2024) Hannah Long The film’s pretensions to profundity come up short here, partly due to failures of craft. You can hear the typewriter behind each character.
Posted Jun 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) Hannah Long Ethan Hunt is sealed in an unreality bunker of his own. One can’t help but be appreciative of his mighty feats, but a little self-awareness might have successfully landed the franchise plane. Instead, it parachutes to safety, coattails aflame.
Posted Jun 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The King of Kings (2025) Peter T. Chattaway Its depiction of the Pharisees as one-dimensional villains plays into old stereotypes, however unintentionally. Overall, though, the film is impressive, and creatively so.
Posted Apr 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Revelations (2025) Paul Marchbanks Revelations is a torrid melodrama, sporting poorly written dialogue, unrealistic characterization, and situations that beggar belief.
Posted Apr 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Opus (2025) Myles Werntz It frequently leans too heavily on the performances of Malkovich and Edebiri. But one of the places where the film shines is in a tension oddly overlooked by reviews so far: whether there is power in beauty alone or whether it must be supported by force.
Posted Mar 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Mickey 17 (2025) Paul Marchbanks Laugh, the film tells us, at scientific hubris and political corruption, but also at every attempt to make things better... When confronted with suffering, I prefer to weep.
Posted Mar 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Last Days (2025) Trevor Babcock On screen, John Chau’s enthusiasm seems to come from nowhere. Without a lost-and-found character arc, he’s just lost.
Posted Mar 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Captain America: Brave New World (2025) Paul Marchbanks Captain America: Brave New World has little to do with the Aldous Huxley novel that gave it its name, nor does it deliver as incisive a social critique... It does, however, offer observations surprisingly congruent with a Christian ethic.
Posted Feb 20, 2025  Edit critic review
I'm Still Here (2024) Mariana Albuquerque I’m Still Here features outstanding performances; its pace is perfectly smooth. But the movie also goes beyond technical excellence. It deeply moved me. I left the theater with red eyes.
Posted Feb 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever (2025) Kara Bettis Carvalho While stewardship is one thing, complete control is another. Johnson’s experiment is the pinnacle -- or maybe the Frankenstein’s monster -- of a society obsessed with autonomy and personal agency.
Posted Jan 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked (2024) Paul Marchbanks The film’s big reveal does not ask us to disbelieve in badness, merely to question those biases that so often mislead and misname. Something wicked this way comes, just not by way of the usual suspects.
Posted Dec 02, 2024  Edit critic review
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. (2024) Myles Werntz The ultimate failure of "Bonhoeffer" is not just that it gets the history wrong. It also misunderstands how Bonhoeffer’s life was already an extraordinary example of Christian courage.
Posted Nov 26, 2024  Edit critic review
Heretic (2024) Paul Marchbanks Heretic poses, rapid-fire, even more questions than I’ve framed here, doing so in a way that avoids the didactic and eludes easy answers.
Posted Nov 15, 2024  Edit critic review
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2024) Joseph Holmes The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is pretty much everything you’d want in a faith-based family Christmas movie. It’s heartfelt, self-aware, and genuinely funny.
Posted Nov 07, 2024  Edit critic review
Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024) Sho Baraka Titus Kaphar’s Exhibiting Forgiveness is a laudable exception in an era of justified anger.
Posted Oct 18, 2024  Edit critic review
The Wild Robot (2024) Mia Staub The Wild Robot speaks to the vocation of motherhood, the clashes between nature and technology, and climate change. It also beautifully demonstrates the humility involved in hospitality.
Posted Oct 11, 2024  Edit critic review
God's Not Dead: In God We Trust (2024) Joseph Holmes Characters don’t dialogue with each other so much as trade ham-fisted buzzwords. The acting ranges from wooden to wildly over the top. The religious and political arguments are lazy and surface level.
Posted Sep 13, 2024  Edit critic review
Sing Sing (2023) Emily Belz The film is funny and it’s heartbreaking. It depicts the heaviness of prison without being gratuitous; it depicts people changing their stories without being naive.
Posted Aug 08, 2024  Edit critic review
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Zachary Lee This extended allusion to Genesis sets the stage for Furiosa’s surprising spiritual heft. In this incendiary, “post-Fall” world, to live is hell and to kill is gain; evil is real, and redemption is desperately sought.
Posted May 29, 2024  Edit critic review
Wildcat (2023) Jessica Hooten Wilson Wildcat is loyal to that prophetic gift. If 1950s adaptations of Flannery O’Connor’s work to the screen dishonored their maker, Wildcat accomplishes the opposite.
Posted May 02, 2024  Edit critic review
Civil War (2024) Zachary Lee By asking us to accept his premise, Garland forces viewers to consider the ideological divisions we take for granted. Turns out, the why doesn’t matter all that much. Dystopia, no matter how it comes about, is still dystopia.
Posted Apr 18, 2024  Edit critic review
Dune: Part Two (2024) Rebecca Cusey [Dune 2] owes its intellectual interest to Herbert’s books. Is faith merely another resource to be exploited in the quest for power? ... Or is it real, tapping into a true well of knowledge and sustenance? The Dune series asks but doesn’t try to answer.
Posted Mar 09, 2024  Edit critic review
God & Country (2024) John Fea We need a deeper and more complex conversation about evangelicals and politics. For all its cinematic brilliance, God & Country just preaches to the choir.
Posted Feb 16, 2024  Edit critic review
The Zone of Interest (2023) Emily Belz We have become accustomed to watching evil deeds explained, contextualized, maybe even justified. Zone is radical in its total disinterest in Höss’s backstory... Evil deeds themselves seem to turn this family evil.
Posted Jan 26, 2024  Edit critic review
Past Lives (2023) Morgan Lee [Past Lives] asks if a more meaningful and beautiful life might be made by accepting our finitude, keeping commitments, and paring down possibilities.
Posted Jan 26, 2024  Edit critic review
The Book of Clarence (2023) Peter T. Chattaway Anyone expecting an updated version of History of the World, Part II will be in for a surprise. Strikingly, there is a genuine quest for spiritual self-improvement at the heart of this film.
Posted Jan 12, 2024  Edit critic review
Freud's Last Session (2023) Alexandra Mellen The screenplay’s inclusion of troubled pasts, familial conflicts, and personal suffering moves Lewis’s visit from an intellectual sparring match to an emotionally riveting drama.
Posted Dec 21, 2023  Edit critic review
The Boys in the Boat (2023) Rebecca Cusey Director George Clooney has made a flawless sports movie... Boys is nostalgic and grounded in history, but it speaks directly -- and deliberately -- to our time.
Posted Dec 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Wonka (2023) Rebecca Cusey The new take on Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka is unabashedly an old-fashioned musical, devoid of cynicism, and unfailingly optimistic.
Posted Dec 18, 2023  Edit critic review
Leo (2023) Mia Staub Leo models not only the importance of intergenerational friendships in a historically lonely time but also the importance of their mutuality.
Posted Dec 14, 2023  Edit critic review
The Shift (2023) Rebecca Cusey While the scale of The Shift is small -- you won’t find grandiose special effects or casts of thousands -- the directing is confident, the cinematography professional, and the pacing (for the most part) well done.
Posted Dec 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Napoleon (2023) Rebecca Cusey Unfortunately, for all its big-budget set pieces and stars, Scott’s film is underdeveloped and confused -- in its basic historical storytelling, but, more importantly, in what it has to say about its subject and the meaning of his life.
Posted Nov 28, 2023  Edit critic review
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Rebecca Cusey The subject may seem well-worn—a true-life story of a murder spree—but Scorsese elevates it into a meditation on love, guilt, and what it means to be righteous.
Posted Nov 28, 2023  Edit critic review
Barbie (2023) Hannah Anderson While these existential questions are refreshing in a mainstream movie, the real magic is found in how they move toward maturity: through imperfection and mistake.
Posted Aug 24, 2023  Edit critic review
Women Talking (2022) Mia Staub We get the rare opportunity to see a glimpse into the world of survivors, to empathize and sympathize with those harmed -- and more importantly, to witness them process their faith amid spiritual manipulation.
Posted May 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Isabel Ong Delightfully disorienting and intellectually absorbing.
Posted May 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Suzume (2022) Isabel Ong There is a poignancy to how the film depicts these abandoned spaces and how the means of bringing order out of chaos is to “hear” the past and remember all who once called them home.
Posted May 26, 2023  Edit critic review
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