Bright Star is passionate, penetrating, and surprisingly tender. It is easily my favorite Jane Campion film. More thoughts available at the Christianity Today Movies Blog.

Films that depict communal religious life with nuance and sympathy are rare, and those that probe without cliché the relationships, communal and familial, between women are rarer still. So why didn’t I love Margarethe von …

Day one of the Toronto International Film Festival got off to a spectacular start with Lone Scherfig’s direction of a Nick Hornby script.  I’ve posted some comments at The Christianity Today Movies Blog.

When I watch films, I don’t normally arrange my schedule around themes. I sometimes do auteur studies, but this division inevitably gets complicated when I hear of interesting things that jump the queue or want …

A lot of films can break your heart–a precious few can enlarge and renovate it.
Vincent Paronnaud’s and Marjane Satrapi’s animated film of the latter’s graphic novel is one of those precious few. It invites comparison …

Doug Pray’s documentary about the rise of the advertising age, replete with interviews from industry giants and snippets from the greatest television ads of all time, was a real festival crowd pleaser. I found it …