In 2024, Arts & Faith sponsored a panel of cinephiles to vote on the Top 25 “spiritually significant” films about crime and punishment. Listen to a podcast introduction from Linsdey Dunn and Christian Jessup:
To read an appreciation from one of the jurors, click on the title of the film below.
1. Dead Man Walking
2. 12 Angry Men
3. The Godfather
4. Spotlight
5. The Passion of Joan of Arc
6. Night of the Hunter
7. Unforgiven
8. Killers of the Flower Moon
9. Calvary
10. The Irishman
11. Fargo
12. Se7en
13. The Apostle
14. Mass
15. Heat
16. Judgment at Nuremberg
17. Minority Report
18. Judas and the Black Messiah
19. First Reformed
20. Anatomy of a Murder
21. A Hero
22. True Grit
23. Elmer Gantry
24. The Silence of the Lambs
25. Catch Me If You Can
Voters: Darrel Manson; Andrew Johnson; Andrew Eisenman; Aren Bergstrom; Gareth Higgins; Noel T. Manning II; Thomas Manning; Evan Cosgwell; Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr.; Christian Jessup; Nathanael Booth; Lindsey Dunn; Elizabeth Rambo; Kenneth R. Morefield; Prisca Bird; Steven D. Greydanus; Brian Duignan.