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Movie review: ‘Migration’
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Movie review: ‘The Holdovers’
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Movie review: ‘Dumb Money’
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Movie review: ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3’
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Movie review: ‘Oppenheimer’
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Movie review: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’
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Movie review: ‘Barbie’
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Movie review: ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’
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Movie review: ‘Sound of Freedom’
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Movie review: ‘Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse’
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Movie review: ‘Fast X’
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Movie review: ‘Air’
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Movie review: ‘In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis’
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Movie review: ‘Champions’
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Movie: ‘The Blood of Jesus’
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Movie review: ‘Knock at the Cabin’

It may be the end of the world as we know it in "Knock at the Cabin" (Universal). But, unlike [...]

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Movie review: ‘Missing’
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These 1926 films now in public domain
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Movie review: ‘DC League of Super-Pets’

How to revitalize the oft-told story of Superman, who made his debut in print way back in 1938? By [...]

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Movie review: ‘Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank’

Bathroom humor reaches new heights -- make that depths -- in "Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank" [...]

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Movie review: ‘Elvis’

Wise men say only fools rush in -- and skip seeing "Elvis" (Warner Bros), a highly entertaining, [...]

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Movie review: ‘Jurassic World Dominion’

It's old home week for a $5 billion sci-fi franchise. That's because "Jurassic World Dominion" [...]

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Movie review: ‘The Bob’s Burgers Movie’

In adapting a long-running Fox TV show for the big screen, directors Loren Bouchard and Bernard [...]

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Movie review: ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’

The award for the most appropriate film title of 2022 goes to "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of [...]

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Movie review: ‘Turning Red’

The animation wizards at Disney and Pixar have often tackled big subjects, mixing sunshine with [...]

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Movie review: ‘Hotel Transylvania: Transformania’

"Hotel Transylvania: Transformania" (Amazon) -- the fourth installment in the animated franchise, [...]

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Movie review: ‘The Batman’

Viewers will find themselves thoroughly absorbed by "The Batman" (Warner Bros.). Director and [...]

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Movie review: ‘The Matrix Resurrections’

You wouldn't care to spend the rest of your life floating unconscious in a pod full of goo, would [...]

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Movie review: ‘American Underdog’

Cheerful as a dance floor boot scoot and livelier than a touchdown drive, the sports-themed, [...]

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Movie review: ‘Sing 2’

"Sing 2" (Universal), writer-director Garth Jennings' follow-up to his 2016 animated musical [...]

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Movie review: ‘The Many Saints of Newark’

Not so much a prequel to "The Sopranos" than a richly textured origin story of Tony Soprano, "The [...]

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Movie review: ‘Spirit Untamed’

Pedigree is important where horses are concerned, and the equine-themed animated adventure "Spirit [...]

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‘Enduring Faith: The Story of Native American Catholicism’
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Movie review: ‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines’

Innovative producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the team behind 2018's "Spider-Man: Into the [...]

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‘The Way Back,’ ‘Pray,’ Dolly Parton special win Christopher Awards

The feature film "The Way Back," a documentary on Father Patrick Peyton, and a Christmas special [...]

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Movie review: ‘Voyagers’

The tedious sci-fi parable "Voyagers" (Lionsgate) seems designed to prove that in space, no one can [...]

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Movie review: ‘Yes Day’

It's easy to sympathize with mom and dad, Allison (Jennifer Garner) and Carlos (Edgar Ramirez) [...]

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Movie review: ‘The Father’
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Movie review: ‘Nomadland’

In 1940, director John Ford adapted John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the year [...]

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Is that all there is? When a 10-best movie list can’t get to 10

The year just past must rank as the most tumultuous for the film industry at least since the [...]

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Movie review: ‘Godfather Coda’

Long reviled as a pale afterthought compared to its two predecessors, 1990's "The Godfather Part [...]

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Movie review: ‘All My Life’
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Movie review: ‘Let Him Go’

The drama "Let Him Go" (Focus), writer-director Thomas Bezucha's adaptation of Larry Watson's 2013 [...]

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Movie review: ‘The War With Grandpa’

Humor goes AWOL during "The War With Grandpa" (101 Studios). While director Tom Hill's flimsy [...]

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Movie Review: ‘The 24th’

"The 24th" (Vertical) is the rare historical drama that plays out like a horror film. The story [...]

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Filmmaker led to Church by Fatima now bringing its story to big screen
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Movie review: ‘The Grizzlies’
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Movie review: ‘Radioactive’

The key to any good film biography of a scientist is found in the montages that show the discovery [...]

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Video ratings

Here is a list of home video releases of theatrical movies that Catholic News Service has rated on [...]

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Review: ‘Sergio’ streaming on Netflix

Acclaimed diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was killed in a 2003 terrorist attack in Baghdad, at [...]

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Movie review: ‘The Call of the Wild’

"Never was there such a dog," says grizzled Yukon explorer John Thornton (Harrison Ford), admiring [...]

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Movie review: ‘Dolittle’

Exactly a century ago, British author Hugh Lofting published "The Story of Doctor Dolittle," the [...]

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Movie review: ‘Little Women’
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Catholic press continues mission to reach contemporary film audiences
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‘Just Mercy ‘
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Review: ‘Playmobil: The Movie’

What middling community theater is to Broadway, "Playmobil: The Movie" (STX) is to the Lego film [...]

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Movie review: ‘Knives Out’

As the days of 2019 dwindle down to a precious few, we're unlikely to see the year produce a more [...]

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Polish actress read saint’s diaries to prepare for film role

Kamila Kaminska, the Polish actress who played St. Faustina Kowalska in the new movie "Love and [...]

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Movie review: ‘The Art of Racing in the Rain’

"The Art of Racing in the Rain" (Fox 2000), an otherwise benign drama about a man and his dog, [...]

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Movie review: ‘The Farewell’

"East is east and west is west," observed Rudyard Kipling, "and never the twain shall meet." Anyone [...]

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Movie review: ‘Yesterday’

Fans of the lads from Liverpool will rejoice over the mostly amiable Beatles-themed comedy [...]

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Movie review: ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’

If there were an Academy Award for the most aurally annoying film of the year, "Godzilla: King of [...]

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Movie review: ‘Aladdin’

Though the magical tale of Aladdin is centuries old, it's probably best known to contemporary [...]

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Movie review: ‘Shazam!’

Endowed by a wizard (Djimon Hounsou) with the ability to transform himself, by dint of the titular [...]

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Movie review: ‘Mortal Engines’

This is a visually impressive but dramatically sterile adventure set in a dystopian far future [...]

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Movie review: ‘Overboard’
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Movie review: ‘Paul, Apostle of Christ’

In the long history of the Church, perhaps no partnership has been more consequential than that [...]

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Movie review: ‘I Can Only Imagine’

Dennis Quaid brings his formidable talent to bear in the faith-driven drama "I Can Only Imagine" [...]

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Movie review: ‘A Wrinkle in Time’

Director Ava DuVernay's youth-oriented fantasy film "A Wrinkle in Time" (Disney) wants to blow your [...]

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Movie review: ‘Every Day’

It's not "Every Day" (Orion) that you run into an incorporeal spirit who inhabits the bodies of [...]

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Actor reflects on title role of St. Paul in upcoming movie ‘Paul, Apostle of Christ’

James Faulkner, the British actor in the title role of St. Paul in the upcoming movie "Paul, [...]

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