Conclave
After the death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) gathers the College for a conclave where conservative and liberal forces clash. An excellent adaptation of Robert Harris’s novel that…
Heretic
When two Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East) knock on the door of a house belonging to a friendly Englishman (Hugh Grant), they have no idea what they’re in for.…
Little Richard: I Am Everything
His sexuality and the color of his skin made it easy for people to underestimate Little Richard throughout his career, but those two aspects of his life mattered a great…
Longlegs
In the 1990s, a young FBI agent (Maika Monroe) finds a connection between a series of murders in Oregon and her own past. There were comparisons with The Silence of…
The Deliverance
As if Ebony Jackson (Andra Day) doesn’t have enough on her plate, including alcoholism and a demanding mother (Glenn Close), something strange is going on in the house where she…
The Whale: Weight of a Lived Life
Brendan Fraser. Photo: A24 In 2006, Brendan Fraser was still at the beginning of his downfall as a movie star, a phase where he couldn’t find many good parts. There…
Immaculate
A young American woman (Sydney Sweeney) who’s a novice in an Italian convent learns one day that she’s pregnant – even though she’s never had sex. Sweeney auditioned for this…
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Perhaps a certain fatigue was setting in at the time of the premiere, only a few years after another Jesus epic, King of Kings (1961). This one was targeted by…
Scapegoat
When a criminal gang exerts greater influence on teenagers in a local community, a priest (Tobias Hjelm) with a dark past has to decide whether or not to act. The…
The First Omen
In 1971, American novitiate Margaret Daino (Nell Tiger Free) arrives in Rome to work at an orphanage, but Father Brennan (Ralph Ineson) warns her not to trust anyone there. This…