Catholic Film Reviews

Directed by Julian Jarrold
Starring Matthew Goode, Emma Thompson, Ben Whishaw, and Michael Gambon
So…Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh is one of the twentieth century’s classic novels. It’s not especially long. A week or so should do the trick. Don’t have the time? Well, there was a superlative miniseries adaptation of the novel produced by Granada in [...]

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The First Noel
The Nativity Story begins with the melancholy strains of “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” and proceeds quickly to the Massacre of the Innocents. Not exactly the Hallmark version of Christmas one might have expected. Catherine Hardwicke, director of the hard-hitting teen drama, Thirteen, immediately establishes a tone of tasteful realism in the opening [...]

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