Arts & Culture

Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.

Watch: To the Wonder

Directed by Terrence Malick (Redbud Pictures, 2013) Over the course of 40 years auteur filmmaker Terrence Malick has made just five feature films. Yet these...

Listen: Hummingbird

Local Natives (Frenchkiss Records, 2013) If Martin Mull is right and “writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” then there...

Watch: Quartet

Directed by Dustin Hoffman (Weinstein Company, 2012) Imagine a kindergarten full of wildly talented octogenarians preparing to put on a school musical and you...

Listen: The Invisible Way

Low (Sub Pop Records, 2013) The release of a new Low album often feels like an unexpected gift. Not that all of their albums are unqualified masterpieces, but...

Watch: Promised Land

Directed by Gus Van Sant (Focus Features, 2013) The film Promised Land asks the question: Who is the bad guy? Is it the big, greedy company that wants to...