Reel Spirituality

The stuff of the plot concerns a dressmaker in 1950s London who, for all his talent, opportunity, and renown, is frustratingly compelled to copulate.

“Change is not knocking on your door. Change is knocking on your heart. You cannot sit quiet after watching this film.”

Paddington really works for the shalom of his community, and his community knows and loves him for it.

Tonya Harding dares us to choose to love her in full view of her faults. It seems no one ever has.

“The Post” serves as a poignant celebration of the free press in American society.

It’s one of the best films of the year, and I expect to hear its name often during awards season. Movies are rarely so well composed and paced.

May the Force be with you. And also with you.

This is the first great film of the Trump era.

Three Billboards is well-acted, consistently funny, and thematically evocative, but it’s hard to buy the world of the film.

Coco is as much about folklore and traditions as it is an honest, heartfelt story about the importance of family.

Justice League might not save our world, but it’s thinking in the right direction.

Spending time with old friends has a way of reviving the people we once were, for good or ill.

As the mystery unravels, Poirot begins to find that his own instincts about crime and justice are inadequate in the face of the fractured world that evil and injustice create.

“Lady Bird” is a delight. I hope “Written and Directed by Greta Gerwig” becomes a title card I see frequently.