The Christian Century

The Rise of Skywalker reduces a powerful theological symbol to a family drama.

Melinda Matsoukas’s film rolls terror and hope into one story.

Bong Jong-ho’s genre-bending film reveals the fantasies of salvation that feed off of us all.

The evangelical satire also offers insight and empathy.

Is there any redemption for the Roy family or the Rose family?

In Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, the director delights in both cinema and blood.

At least the ones who survived the original series

The sarcastic and sacrilegious two-season show has a moral center.

The series was clear-sighted about power and misogyny, but it failed to see that vision through.

Personal conversion is part of social change, but we can’t end our stories there.

Jordan Peele’s new horror film reveals the pasts we are all tethered to.

Nadia denies that her journey is about morality, but it is.

Marie Kondo works to restore right relationships between humans and objects.

Can memories of childhood joy really make up for predatory lending and labor busting?

In Cuarón’s film, both love and violence come in waves.