"We’d like to applaud the filmmakers for raising reading levels, in an industry where dumbing-down is the business model." Film critic John Anderson reviews 'Divergent.'

I once had a homiletics professor who said not to worry too much if it appears that members of the congregation are daydreaming during your homily. A homily, he pointed out, is not an act of persuasion. You’re not up there trying to prove some point. (Or if you are, God help the people.) A goo

Is it blasphemous to say that the problem with “Noah” is the story? That it may not be substantial enough to float a star-driven, effects-laden, $125-million movie? Or that director Darren Aronofsky’s attempt to hang flesh, blood, human logic and nautical mechanics on a tale that b

Wes Anderson’s ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’

The most important news photographer of the 20th century was a Russian-Jewish immigrant clothing manufacturer from Dallas, Tex., who almost left his camera home on the day his life went crazy. Abraham Zapruder, whose half-minute film has fueled a half-century of conspiracy theories, recorded a presi

The “Son of God” will probably enjoy box-office success. But does that justify portraying the Son of God as a blockbuster movie hero?