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Slapstick Tragedy
I, Tonya is a biopic/mockumentary about figure skater Tonya Harding (played by Margot Robbie)—United States champion in…
Martyrdom in The Last Jedi
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is an excellent addition to the Star Wars canon, precisely because it…
Superheroic Testimonies
The most extraordinary image in any movie this century appears in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. It…
Bluegrass Preaching
A few years ago, I wrote a piece for First Things titled “The Dominican Option”—a response to…
The Heart of the Psalms
Over the course of ten days in early November, New Yorkers had the opportunity to attend Lincoln…
Cult of the Cutting-Edge
Should art aspire to be “absolutely cutting-edge”? What exactly does that phrase mean? In The Square, a…
He Went There
He was not a refugee, not an immigrant, not a displaced person. Or, rather: yes and no.…
The First Responder
Confessing all the secret things in the warm velvet box To the priest—he’s the doctor—he can handle…
An Integralist Manifesto
Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IXby…
Into the Swamp
In the 1990s, journalist Lawrence Wechsler began teaching college courses on “Settling Accounts with the Prior Regime.”…
What Should Girls Watch?
A female correspondent read my post “What Should Boys Watch?” and wondered about the other half of…
Dunkirk: A Riveting Film of War and Survival
Of all the battles of World War II, Dunkirk is among the most important—and least discussed. While…
Paterson
Paterson (2016; directed by Jim Jarmusch) is a cinematic poem in seven stanzas, a week in the…
Feminine Wonder Woman
I loved Wonder Woman. That’s quite an admission, since the female-directed (Patty Jenkins) fantasy is supposed to…
The Limits of Planned Parenthood’s Storytelling
Joss Whedon tells stories about heroes, whether they’re California teenagers slaying vampires, a misfit band of smugglers…
