“The Acolyte,” the latest installment in the “Star Wars” franchise, shows us what happens when even the best of us cozy up to power.

“The Godfather Part III” (1990) is the most explicitly Catholic entry in the series.

John Gregory Dunne had a unique ability in his writing—fiction or not—to show the saintly and the sinner all at once.

Despite his performative Catholicism, Michael Corleone puts more stock in the American vision of freedom than the Christian one.

With “Horizon: An American Saga,” Mr. Costner has realized an idea 36 years in the making.

The fact that audiences see the story as aspirational is more of a reflection on us as fallen people than the film itself.