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John Anderson is a television critic for The Wall Street Journal and a contributor to The New York Times.
Margot Robbie in “I, Tonya”
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Perhaps Trump-style class resentments and the disregarding of women’s stories are simply constants in American life.
Woody Harrelson and Frances McDormand in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (photo: Fox Searchlight)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” contains enough guilt to keep the town's confessionals busy for months.
Saoirse Ronan as Lady Bird (Photo: A24)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Lady Bird, with her magenta hair and acne, is an original; Greta Gerwig, appropriately, takes chances.
Melissa Leo as the fearsome Reverend Mother Marie St. Claire (Sony Pictures Classics)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Set in the early ’60s, “Novitiate” is yet another tale of the trauma suffered by the religious and their orders in the wake of the Second Vatican Council.
Josh Gad, Chadwick Bosman and Sterling K. Brown in 'Marshall' (Open Road Films)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
He might get a shotgun escort when he leaves town, but Thurgood Marshall is the Lone Ranger of civil rights.
Padraic Delany as Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms in 1517. (Courtesy of Jake Thomas/PBS)
Arts & CultureTelevision
John Anderson
The two-hour film portrays the "simple monk" Martin Luther as more of a Catholic than he is generally thought to be.
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
"The Good Catholic," out in theaters today, tells the story of an idealistic young priest, Daniel who is happy in his work, unhappy in his faith.
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
In the wake of Vatican II, the teaching nuns of a convent find their way of life being jettisoned by a revenue-challenged church.
Courtesy of Sundance Institute.
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
The people behind “An Inconvenient Truth” can be forgiven for indulging in a bit of “I told you so” in their follow-up film, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.”
Laurie Davidson as William Shakespeare in "Will" (photo: TNT)
Arts & CultureTelevision
John Anderson
The story of Shakespeare is eternally appealing, because we want to know what confluence of circumstances, or divine blessing, could produce such a towering figure.