For Greater Glory

This epic starring Andy Garcia about Mexico’s anticlerical Cristero War of the late 1920s is a plodding and poorly plotted tale.

"...a cluster of anticlerical edicts outlawing the practice of Catholicism and the presence of the clergy throughout the country...."

June 1, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Brothers McMullen

"...all at different stages of denial toward commitment and Catholicism. The film opens at Mr. McMullen's burial, an event..."

Aug. 25, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2011: Live Action

Amaze your friends and colleagues when you know everything about all the nominees in this category.

"...Directed by: Various. Catholicism and kids: Narratively speaking, it’s the gift that keeps..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Stigmata

"...Gabriel Byrne and Patricia Arquette. What is it about Catholicism that has inspired so many filmmakers to plumb its..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Irishman

Scorsese's filmmaking excellence can't mask a flawed retreading of mob history

"...in the too-cute-for-its-own-good Rolling Thunder Revue, and the old-man Catholicism of Silence. Yet most especially The Irishman fits into..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Saints alive! To each her own biopic.

"...and Linda Hayden. The story of one of Roman Catholicism's most beloved and modern saints is once more told..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

This biopic provides an introduction to the work of Dorothy Day, activist for the disenfranchised and founder of the newspaper called The Catholic Worker.

"...for the Communist newspaper The Call, she turned to Catholicism and chose to live in poverty and work amongst..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dialogues With Madwomen

"...are stories of incest and psychic abuse, the early Catholicism that stimulated a desire for self-mutilation and suffering, the..."

May 13, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

"...at all) touched on: the drugs, the voyeurism, the Catholicism, the generosity, the homosexual aesthetic, the late society portraitist..."

Aug. 2, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Of Church and State

British director Stephen Frears discusses his new film, Liam

"...What were some of your other influences when envisioning Catholicism?..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

The End of the Affair

"...movie also brings to the forefront Greene's fascination with Catholicism and morality, although the Catholicism doesn't rear its head..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM

The gargoyles guarding the great cathedrals are a part of religion, a part of humanity, even a part of God. You come to be redeemed, but it's possible you'll be devoured.

"...In my teens my Catholicism ripped in two. Emotionally, I very much wanted to..."

May 3, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Austin Ain't Boys' Town

Meet the Most Reverend John McCarthy

"...the "job" of bishop, a few burning questions on Catholicism, and sought his opinion on some issues of the..."

Dec. 27, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Corpus Christi

Powerful Polish drama probes faith and lies

"...(Rycembel). There's no attempt at theological debate, because his Catholicism is not the issue. Instead, caught somewhere between guilt..."

April 3, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hope Gap

A very British divorce, as Bening and Nighy head to lives apart

"...getting physical, and she dismisses her son’s abandonment of Catholicism as him just being thick: “If you understood properly,..."

March 13, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Saint Frances

SXSW 2019 light-touch comedy faces growing up at 34

"...out works (the last remaining overhang of her childhood Catholicism). There’s no way she’s keeping what she calls “a..."

March 13, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Two Popes

Hopkins and Pryce are delicately charming in the true story of a modern schism

"...world, a higher power, and perhaps God. But Roman Catholicism gets the gold star for its pomp and circumstance..."

Dec. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Levitation Interview: Lingua Ignota

Kristin Hayter on academia, catholicism & the complexity of violence

"...Structurally, a lot of the music is influenced by Catholicism and liturgical settings, but I don’t know if the..."

Nov. 7, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Nun

The Conjuring franchise heads to Romania

"...Frenchie (Bloquet), and a denouement that peddles in medieval-style Catholicism as a bundle of superpowers and trinkets. At least..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

Goya-winning animation finds the demons within us all

"...the disposable society, and some not-so-subtle jabs at Spanish Catholicism. Yet, for all that brutality, and the continual sense..."

May 25, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Innocents

Polish nuns raped by soldiers during WWII trigger wider moral issues

"...the abbess cloaks her irrational notions of sin (Roman Catholicism 101) in the guise of carrying out a duty..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Club

Chile's Oscar nominee is a dark drama about pedophile priests

"...be noted here that although The Club focuses on Catholicism, the story could easily be seen through the lens..."

March 11, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mother Mary Montano

The influential performance artist and onetime teacher at UT revisits Austin in the guise of a saint

"...Sister Rose Augustine is a nudge-nudge, wink-wink commentary on Catholicism and its earthly agents, both telegraphing and skewering Montano's..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Arts Feature by Andy Campbell

Philomena

Judi Dench and Steve Coogan star in this drama about the search for a woman's son who was taken from her when he was a toddler.

"...Philomena, despite her experiences, remains a faithful believer in Catholicism. More prominent than religion, however, are Martin and Philomena’s..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Big Wedding

In this wedding comedy, a bridegroom’s bitterly divorced parents (De Niro and Keaton) must pretend they’re still married to appease his Catholic birth mother.

"...sidesteps the more fecund possibilities of the script. Devout Catholicism – not exactly de rigueur in contemporary American comedy..."

May 3, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Sessions

A sex therapist helps a man living in an iron lung experience human intimacy; John Hawkes and Helen Hunt keep things from becoming prurient.

"...bathed or moved. Complicating O’Brien’s regret is his devout Catholicism, a religion with a long history of decrying recreational..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'No Glory At All'

"...1926 laws that provoked the rebellion did not prohibit Catholicism. What the president did, in addition to declaring that..."

June 5, 2012 Postmarks

Unraveling Shakespeare's Life

Dr. James Shapiro tackles the Bard one slice at a time

"...fast. If you believe that Shakespeare is struggling with Catholicism in his teenage years, you can read Catholicism through..."

March 23, 2012 Books Post by Robert Faires

Senna

This British-made documentary about Formula One racing legend Ayrton Senna is gripping stuff.

"...Championship titleholder Alain Prost, speculated publicly that Senna's devout Catholicism made him believe he was invincible, and therefore more..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM: A Fallen Catholic in a Fallen Church

I can't hide from my sins and, now, neither can the church

"...jade. If some of my rocks are remnants of Catholicism, that's how it is. The saints, the Virgin, the..."

July 16, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

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