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Rick Yancey's book has to be far better than this resulting movie. How else to explain how such a bloated dystopian mess got greenlighted in the...

Few modern films attempt a truly grand scale set in the real wilderness. Fewer still actually pull it off. The Revenant dares the first and, to its...

The story of a talking polar bear who longs to protect his Arctic habitat from a despicable developer feels pieced together from better films, and...

If this is the direction Christian films are going, I'm all for it. The story is both uplifting and interesting and there's plenty of action.

After the excitement and energy of the first act, the film - one of the best in the series and much easier to follow than the prequels - develops...

The spiritual struggle in Concussion is one all believers confront to some degree—how to open people's eyes when they are too comfortable with a...

Basically the Catholic version of the Faith Based Film, its fascinating subject - Mother Teresa and her writings - ends up making for only a...

Fans of the books will be happy. But more casual viewers should be advised that this one lacks some of the colorful, over-the-top spectacle of...

While it may not possess the same ingenuity as the woman whose story it tells, it’s certainly a story worth watching.

Not all of us leave home to find adventure and make new beginnings. But most of us do, at least once. For this reason, Brooklyn will resonate with...

There's more to this story than cute critters, catchy music and groan-worthy jokes. It touches on the fear of abandonment common to adopted...

Like a well-staged morality play that’s far more entertaining than preachy, this film asks the big questions The Wolf of Wall Street never quite...

Underneath all the smut is a well-performed dramedy about a wildly dysfunctional family that somehow manages to learn how to function.

Blanchett may be considered an Oscar frontrunner for her performance, but Carol, about a lesbian love affair in the 1950s, is pretty scant on...

Considering how sophisticated animated movies have become thanks to Pixar, one still couldn’t help wondering if something based on a comic strip...