Moviegoers unwise enough to sit through the obscenely violent vengeance-driven thriller "The Crow" (Lionsgate) may end up wishing the theater had issued them an airline-style sick bag along with their ticket. It's a noisome tale on several levels.
Way back in 1989, Patrick Swayze found an action vehicle in the tale of a brawling bouncer hired to keep the loutish patrons of an Indiana bar in line. Switch venues from the Midwest to the Southeast and substitute Jake Gyllenhaal's biceps for Swayze's and you have the wholly unnecessary remake "Road House" (Amazon MGM).
Emotional ambiguity pervades the dramatization "Killers of the Flower Moon" (Paramount/Apple TV+). Epic yet intimate, director and co-writer Martin Scorsese's masterful recounting of real-life events in 1920s Oklahoma is too gritty for kids, but deeply rewarding for grown-ups and possibly acceptable for older teens.
Though somber in tone, the Marvel Comics-based sci-fi adventure "Dark Phoenix" has a fundamentally moral outlook and features a more relationship-driven story than many similar films.
What makes the society in “The Giver” most like contemporary Europe is the forgetfulness of Christianity. The source of the greatest suffering throughout human history is the attempt to deal with original sin on our own.
“Gravity” is the most visually arresting movie since “Avatar.” But what is perhaps most surprising about this film is its clear and profound religious import.
