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What the theater can do
It’s hard to talk about the transformative power of being onstage without sounding ridiculous. Sing Sing and Ghostlight show us instead.
Horror movie mom
When I watch a mother slay a monster and hustle her kids to safety, it never fails to satisfy.
The wisdom of folk horror
Around the world, filmmakers have used a horror framework to explore the fears and nightmares of their societies.
The monsters we fear
Religion and horror often ask us to reflect on the same set of questions.
R.M.N. is a kaleidoscopic allegory of all of Western civilization
Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu takes a hammer to true-to-life events and then puts the pieces back together again.
Robert Pattinson gives us the Batman we need
He carries the hesitant masculinity of Twilight’s Edward Cullen in his body.
Mollywood produces films portraying Christians as a normal part of the South Indian landscape
A growing number of Malayalam-language films feature Christian characters or themes.
A look at faith in film over the last decade
At a time of rapid secularization, filmmakers seem intrigued—if sometimes also repelled—by religion.
The Best of Enemies is a movie centered on one white man’s conversion
Personal conversion is part of social change, but we can’t end our stories there.
The people who haunt us
Jordan Peele’s new horror film reveals the pasts we are all tethered to.
Mary Poppins returns to a world of economic insecurity
Can memories of childhood joy really make up for predatory lending and labor busting?
In Roma, Alfonso Cuarón portrays life amid Mexico’s class divides
In Cuarón’s film, both love and violence come in waves.
BlacKkKlansman, Sorry to Bother You, and the “white voice”
If whiteness is a fiction, it's one that does a lot of damage.
The Incredibles are back, with a more collaborative vision
Elastigirl is the hero we need.
The spiritual desert of First Reformed's minister
Ernst Toller is not so different from the male anti-heroes at the heart of Paul Schrader's earlier, more sensational films.
Tales of different lands
Literature and film from England, Hungary, Japan, and Korea
8 recent films that take on the church
Across the globe, cinematic portrayals of Christianity are increasingly emphasizing its faults.
Logan Lucky's criminals and why we root for them
In Ocean's 11, the thieves' sheer coolness reeled us in. It's a harder sell when the heroes day-drink themselves to sleep.