Nine Puzzles Directed by Yoon Jong-bin (Moonlight Film, 2025) Detective stories can be cliché. Often the humanity of the characters gets lost in the grisly...
TV and film
Browse through a collection of commentaries and reflections that look at modern television and film—from The Chosen to Star Wars—through a Catholic lens.
Maybe you haven’t noticed him. Essentially a means to someone else’s ends, Mr. Potter’s anonymous manservant in Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life has a...
About two-thirds of the way through Wake Up Dead Man—the exhilarating third installment in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out series starring Daniel Craig as gentleman...
You know the story. Small-town girl achieves high-powered career success in the big city but can’t find true happiness until she comes back home. No one likes...
I’ve always been a big fan of what economists call the public sector. I could dress up that enthusiasm with fancy language about “solidarity” and the “common...
Elio Directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina (Pixar, 2025) Featuring clones, aliens, and supercomputers, Elio is an out-of-this-world...
“Have you seen The Chosen?” When the streaming series first began in 2019, this was an innocuous question. But now, the same question can feel like a litmus...
The Phoenician Scheme Directed by Wes Anderson (Focus Features, 2025) Wes Anderson movies are two-hour living art installations. The director of that...
Superman Directed by James Gunn (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2025) With the release of a new Superman film, directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet as...
“Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero,” says an African proverb. It’s time that Indigenous Americans told their own stories—and...
