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Crime 101 — R (A-III)

All three of the main characters in "Crime 101" (Amazon MGM), the film adaptation of Don Winslow's 2020 novella, are dealing with lives and careers that have slammed into a wall.
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Catherine O’Hara’s Catholic roots

Catholic faith was not part of comedian Catherine O'Hara's public-facing work and personality. She didn't mine that part of her life for laughs, focusing instead on developing her signature oddballs, described by comedy writer Merrill Markoe, an admirer, as "deeply disturbed female characters, many of whom had been somehow mangled by show business."
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Send Help — R (O)

"Send Help" (20th Century) is a bitterly cynical horror movie that charts a race to the ethical bottom between its two main characters. In fact, as scripted by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, director Sam Raimi's deliberately outrageous film suggests that worldly success can be achieved by resorting to unbridled viciousness.
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Mercy — PG-13 (A-III)

With apologies to pulp fiction crime writer Mickey Spillane, the dystopian thriller "Mercy" (Amazon MGM) might more aptly be called AI the Jury. That's because, in the film's near-future setting, artificial intelligence is empowered to fight crime by generating a rough sort of justice.
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Hamnet — PG-13 (A-III)

"Hamnet" (Focus) is a lyrical but emotionally wrenching drama, a film that is both too intense and too complicated for kids. Those of their elders equipped to take on this challenging riff on real-life events, however, will also be able to bring their religious formation to bear on the movie's more problematic elements.
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Top 10 family films of 2025

In a welcome contrast with the preceding few years, 2025 saw an increased yield of high-quality films suitable for viewing by the whole family. Some of these movies were also religiously themed and can thus be recommended as vehicles for catechesis.
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Primate — R (O)

In the opening sequence of the horror film "Primate" (Paramount), a minor character has one of his eyes gouged out and his entire face ripped off his skull. That moment, unfortunately, typifies the excessive gore that mars this otherwise taut and cleverly tense chiller, preventing endorsement of it for any age group.
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David — PG (A-l)

Last spring, Angel Studios released "The King of Kings," a fine screen version of Victorian novelist Charles Dickens' recounting of the life of Jesus. With "David," the company provides viewers with a topflight animated musical profiling one of the Savior's most prominent ancestors.
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Song Sung Blue — PG-13 (A-III)

There is not one ounce of cynicism in "Song Sung Blue" (Focus), the fact-based tale of a Neil Diamond cover band from Milwaukee. And therein lies immense power.
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The Housemaid — R (L)

As a mystery in which no one is who they appear to be, the psychological horror film "The Housemaid" (Lionsgate) has a lot of entertaining suspense to offer viewers. Yet the movie is also a gory revenge fantasy that dabbles in grotesquery and sadistic behavior, thus severely circumscribing its appropriate audience.
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Avatar: Fire and Ash — PG-13 (L)

"Avatar: Fire and Ash" (20th Century), the third film in the always visually rich franchise that got its start in 2009, brings forward thematic elements that had previously been kept in the background and that viewers of faith will find it impossible to accept and difficult to dismiss. As a result, it requires careful evaluation by mature movie fans.
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Eternity — PG (A-lll)

The denizens of heaven, we have it on the highest authority, "neither marry nor are given in marriage." Viewers of the romantic comedy "Eternity" (A24) will get a fresh insight into just how wise this divine dispensation really is.
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