Brehm Film brings together filmmakers and film-viewers, Christian leaders and laity, scholars and students for dialogue between our culture's primary stories and the Christian faith.
Brehm Film brings together filmmakers and film-viewers, Christian leaders and laity, scholars and students for dialogue between our culture's primary stories and the Christian faith.
Brehm Film brings together filmmakers and film-viewers, Christian leaders and laity, scholars and students for dialogue between our culture's primary stories and the Christian faith.
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Recent Reviews
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
When Black Panther: Wakanda Forever isn’t being a Marvel movie, it’s a lot of fun.
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Physical beauty is but one aspect of beauty, the glint of a greater glory. People are beautiful because they are complex and ineffable, endlessly fascinating creations of the eternal God.
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
This is not Disney’s film. It is a much darker, weirder tale, rough with knots and splinters, but glowing with boyish mischief.
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The Banshees of Inisherin
What a knotty tale this is! You never feel resolution, only sadness and longing and bewilderment.
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Black Adam
You didn’t come here for a lesson. You came here to watch the Rock make things go boom.
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Raymond & Ray
We keep telling this story because we long for our relationships with out parents to be right.
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Hocus Pocus 2
Hocus Pocus 2 does that thing that Disney has been doing for the last decade or so and tries to offer its villains a measure of redemption.
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Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick isn’t a movie. It’s music. It’s the kind of story sung by ancient Greek poets who beseech the Muses for inspiration.
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Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers
The original cartoon, Chip ’n Dale Rescue Rangers, was itself a reboot/reimagining of a couple of classic Disney characters. Why not do it again?
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is another variation on the multiverse concept echoing through our blockbusters of late.
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The Northman
We see what we have the eyes of faith to see. The Northman lets us see with viking eyes for a couple of hours. I see, and I shudder.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
Everything Everywhere All at Once asks a question that is easy for us to answer: What is the meaning of life?
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This is Oslo; This is Gotham
The Worst Person in the World and The Batman cry for new narratives, for new ways of reaching maturity that don’t depend on childrearing and violence.
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Wine and War
Wine and War offers a glimpse into a kind of counter-narrative to cycles of violence, one in which beauty is borne out of pain, and transcendence is born out of depravity.
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Licorice Pizza
Licorice Pizza is like a trip to a record store. It’s a great hangout movie, awash in music and shining with all the adolescent feelings pop music so perfectly captures.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home
In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker is given the gift of layered experience due to a rift in the space-time continuum. It’s fun for fans who have watched all the Spider-Man movies made since 2001. It is enlightening for Peter.
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Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is merciless. It’s a lot like the “geek show” we see near the beginning of the film in which a man bites the head off a live chicken.
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Playing With Sharks
What if the entire population of a given place was made up of artists? Marfa, Texas is a place where you can find out.
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My Name Is Pauli Murray
The documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray introduces us to the activist and spiritual leader the world forgot.
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Summer of Soul
Through footage that has never been seen before—and that sat in a basement for 50 years—this documentary gives visibility to the healing and radicalizing gift the festival brought to the neighborhoods of Harlem.
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
It’s honestly kind of surprising this documentary hasn’t been made before
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Bad Hair
The real demon in Bad Hair the normative standard of white beauty. When you scream, whether you realize it or not, you’re screaming at the horrors of white supremacy.The real demon in Bad Hair is the normative standard of white beauty. When you scream, whether you realize it or not,… Read more »
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Palm Springs
If you’ve got to be trapped in the same day for all eternity, you at least want to be able to lounge in an infinity pool, right?
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50 First Dates
50 First Dates manages to say something novel about this “meaningless, meaningless life” we life we live, as time-loop movies make so abundantly clear.
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In the Room with Scott Derrickson
Scott Derrickson, director and screenwriter of The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Doctor Strange, has a conversation about storytelling, the horror genre, and the creative process.
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Uncut Gems
Uncut Gems is electric,If you can tap into it quickly, you can ride the current right up until it arcs off the screen and into your skull, at which point you can either let it continue through your body warming your every cell or you can switch off and just… Read more »
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Ford v Ferarri
Ford v Ferarri is a story of how a team of underdog idealists prevailed working within the stifling climate of an immense corporation. It’s a story about what it costs an idealist to work within an institution.
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Marielle Heller has previously made movies about thoroughly unlikeable people and dared audiences to sympathize with them. Here, she dares us to believe kindness of this sort is possible.
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The Irishman
A common trope of faith and film writing is that the cinema is a “sacred space.” In Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, the theater becomes a confessional.
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The Lighthouse
Robert Eggers is back with The Lighthouse, another unsettling time warp into the dark recesses of American folklore.
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Strange Negotiations: Music As Transgression
In this way, the film manages to stay focused on the particularities of Bazan’s story, but it does so by setting this one man’s personal journey against the backdrop of a series of broader shifts.
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