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Our personal faith is a beautiful thing — no matter where that may lie for each of us. It sings in the babbling brooks, dances in the rustling leaves, and, for Jen Starling who is played brilli...

https://artsandfaith.com/the-starling-girl/

In my twenties, I spent two summers in Asia and Europe, documenting the work of Christian missionaries abroad. My idealism soon gave way to bone-crunching realism. Most of the missionaries I film...

https://artsandfaith.com/the-mission-2/

“I still don’t understand the play.” So muses Augie Steenbeck (Jason Schwartzman) multiple times through Wes Anderson’s story of a televised production of a fictitious play about death, g...

https://artsandfaith.com/asteroid-city/

“How do you live?” is the fundamental question posed by Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron. It’s the question posed to Mahito Maki, the angry 12-year-old boy at the film’s centre. ...

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I never thought I would identify with Barbie. As a little girl, I disavowed the doll and any potential ‘girly-girl’ association by telling people I owned Stacie’s 3-in-1 Bunk Bed and Barbie...

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Celine Song’s directorial debut Past Lives has the kind of confidence that one would expectfrom a seasoned filmmaker deep into their career. The narrative is built around the concept of in-yun,...

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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. is essential viewing because an unexamined faith is not a wellspring of beliefs, but a list on inclinations inscribed on a wet napkin. Following Abby R...

https://artsandfaith.com/are-you-there-god-its-me-margaret/

Killers of the Flower Moon lays plain yet another appalling chapter of American history. The Reign of Terror in the 1920s saw the Osage people murdered by white people who felt the wealth from oi...

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The absolutely brilliant Paul Giamatti plays Paul Hunham, a cantankerous, foul-mouthed prep-school teacher, who is somewhat forced into taking care of a bunch of misfit students during winter bre...

https://artsandfaith.com/the-holdovers/

“You don’t get to commit the sin, then have us all feel sorry for you that it had consequences,” Kitty Oppenheimer reprimands her husband Robert midway through 2023’s Oppenheimer. For mo...

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