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Blade Runner

Blade Runner

Posted onDecember 31, 2021May 14, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

Rick Deckard: She’s a replicant, isn’t she?Dr. Eldon Tyrell: I’m impressed. How many questions does it usually take to spot one?Deckard: I don’t get it, Tyrell.Tyrell: How many questions?Deckard: Thirty, forty, cross-referenced.Tyrell: It took more than a hundred for Rachael, didn’t it?Deckard: She doesn’t know.Tyrell: Read More …

CategoriesTop 100 Lists, Top 25 Films Memory

Dead Man Walking

Dead Man Walking

Posted onDecember 31, 2021May 27, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

“I’ll be the face of love for you,” Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) tells a soon-to-be-executed murderer. The idea that a film can transcend (or sidestep) political ideologies has always been questioned, but the intertwining of the moral and the political has certainly been on Read More …

CategoriesTop 100 Lists, Top 25 Crime and Punishment, Top 25 Lists

Won't You Be My Neighbor

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Posted onDecember 31, 2021May 27, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

It seems hardly coincidental that two films on the life of children’s television host and ordained Presbyterian minister Fred Rogers were released in as many years.  A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), a feature starring Tom Hanks and directed by Marielle Heller, was nominated for the Read More …

CategoriesEcumenical Jury, Top 100 Lists, Top 25 Documentaries, Top 25 Lists

Tender Mercies

Tender Mercies

Posted onDecember 31, 2021May 12, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

Though set in Texas, Tender Mercies is a poignant reflection on experiences and challenges that are universal. It moves unhurriedly through the struggle of a middle-aged man to understand why, even after he seemingly made every effort to ruin his life, God still blessed him. His struggle, Read More …

CategoriesTop 100 Lists, Top 25 Marriage Films

Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

Posted onDecember 31, 2021October 10, 2025AuthorArts & Faith

We must decide to be human. In the People’s Square, before a great crowd of witnesses and in representing them, we must make the decision to be wholly human. Wim Wenders’ wonderful and dreamlike 1987 fantasy, Der Himmel über Berlin, portrays two angels observing the people Read More …

CategoriesTop 100 Lists, Top 25 Waking Up Films

Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace

Posted onDecember 31, 2021May 27, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

For as long as I have identified as Christian, those who write about Christianity and the arts or those who make “Christian” art have described the crossover artist as the goal of Christian art. That artist would be someone who identified as Christian and whose Read More …

CategoriesTop 100 Lists, Top 25 Documentaries, Top 25 Lists

Tokyo Story

Tokyo Story

Posted onDecember 31, 2021May 12, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

Until very late in Yasujiro Ozu’s film Tokyo Story, there is no crisis more dramatic than some uncomfortable silences. So what is it that makes this film one of the most revered dramas ever crafted? It’s the simplest of stories: An elderly couple—Shukichi and Tomi—drop in Read More …

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Frisco Jenny

Posted onDecember 31, 2021May 27, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

Released in 1932, two years before Hollywood studios began enforcing the restrictive guidelines of the Motion Picture Production Code, William A. Wellman’s Frisco Jenny remains shockingly modern in 2016. Ruth Chatterton stars in the title role, as a good-hearted gal turned madam and bootlegger who is fiercely Read More …

CategoriesTop 100 Lists, Top 25 Films Mercy

Munyurangabo

Munyurangabo

Posted onDecember 31, 2021May 27, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

We’ve seen some powerful, horrifying films about the war in Rwanda. But we’ve never seen anything like this—a film made with the help of Rwandans, informed by their own experiences, and performed in their own language. Sangwa’s a prodigal son of the Hutu. He’s come Read More …

CategoriesTop 100 Lists, Top 25 Films Mercy, Top 25 Road Films

The Man Who Planted Trees

The Man Who Planted Trees

Posted onDecember 31, 2021May 8, 2026AuthorArts & Faith

This beautifully animated short film begins before World War I in the deserted and desertified foothills of the Alps in southern France, where the narrator, on a hiking excursion, meets the peasant Elzéard Bouffier. Having lost his family, Bouffier has decided to dedicate the rest Read More …

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