This is an abridged version of a review I wrote for Christianity Today Movies. To read the rest of this review, click here.
Writer/director David Wall, who looks astonishingly like a young Robert Redford, also plays the lead role of Father Jonathan Keene, an emotionally aloof priest every bit as cold as the snow-draped Cape Cod […]

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Atonement, like so many films this year, is based on a best-selling novel, in this case, by Ian McEwan. Some, like No Country for Old Men have been masterful adaptations, exquisitely capturing the essence and nuance of the page and translating it to the screen with breathtaking originality. Others, like Love in the Time of […]

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The Golden Compass should be fun, but it rarely is. It should sweep you away, but it rarely does. For a film suffused with magic, it is, regrettably, far from magical.

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