Voices

John Anderson is a television critic for The Wall Street Journal and a contributor to The New York Times.
Arts & CultureFilm
There is a very Christian concept underlying “Rocketman,” namely Elton’s redemption—even if it is from his own biography.
Arts & CultureFilm
There was a moment during “Aladdin” when I thought, “This would have made a terrific animated movie.”
Arts & CultureFilm
The John Ronald Reuel Tolkien of Dome Karukoski’s film has all the raw ingredients he needs to become J. R. R. Tolkien.
Arts & CultureFilm
The new film is in many ways an act of love, an effort to tell its story both freshly and honestly, with fidelity to Scripture.
Arts & CultureFilm
Under a remarkably convincing recreation of 1819 England is both the brutality and the self-righteousness exhibited by the haves, when the have-nots ask for more.
Arts & CultureTelevision
A new series on History approaches Jesus and his followers as humans rather than as stained-glass icons.
Arts & CultureBooks
Crosby was the most Catholic superstar the United States has ever seen.
Arts & CultureFilm
Who, exactly, was the fastidious, mustachioed Hercule Poirot?
Arts & CultureFilm
“La Religieuse” has been assailed as an attack on the church itself. And by people who had not even seen the film.
Arts & CultureFilm
“Vice” isn’t a dishonest movie, exactly. It just enables dishonesty.