John P. McCarthy, Catholic News Service

Catholic News Service At the center of filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan’s drama “Manchester by the Sea” lays a crushed soul flawlessly embodied by actor Casey Affleck. Affleck’s...

Catholic News Service No boxing movie can ignore the fact that inflicting and enduring physical damage is an essential part of the sport. The question is...

Catholic News Service Mankind has an extended encounter with aliens from outer s pace in “Arrival.” This unusually intimate science-fiction drama finds profundity on a human...

Catholic News Service In effect, the action-drama “The Accountant” argues that those with autism have a license to kill as well as to abet a...

Catholic News Service Typically, romantic comedies do not revolve around characters our youth-crazed culture tends to dismiss as middle-aged. “Bridget Jones’s Baby” (Universal) is a...

Catholic News Service Two young Florida men become improbable arms merchants in “War Dogs,” a fact-based movie that hovers uneasily between raucous comedy and serious...

Catholic News Service Just beneath the surface of “The Legend of Tarzan,” a Gilbert and Sullivan opera is trying to claw its way out. That's not...

Catholic News Service The ambitious historical drama “Free State of Jones” considers a little-known aspect of the Civil War: armed dissent within the South born...

  Catholic News Service When North Korean terrorists besiege the White House in 2013’s “Olympus Has Fallen,” Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) leaps into...

Catholic News Service The zombie apocalypse theme has become a staple of pop culture. The latest movie variant, “The 5th Wave,” adds an alien invasion and...