A once in a lifetime exhibit of Italian paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York reminds us of the foundations of our faith.

“You may think you know my story,” says Mary, having galloped into the movie on horseback. “Trust me. You don’t.”

John Banville is surely the only crime novelist in recent memory who has won the Booker Prize and is regularly rumored to be in the running for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

How realistic is “Conclave”? A canon lawyer weighs in.

The pacing of “Gladiator II” says a lot about what Ridley Scott’s priorities were for this film: spectacle, immersion, pure feeling.

Dorothy and her friends’ journey is one of discovery and gratitude, an external quest that reveals internal riches.