Section: Movies
Silence Asks, And Tries To Answer: What Would Jesus Do?
by Amy Nicholson | January 13, 2017 at 8:27 pm
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Martin Scorsese’s Silence, a ritualistically violent drama about the extinction of Catholicism in feudal Japan, is a film about faith that works like a mirror. It’s 1640 and the Tokugawa shogunate has executed 6,000 Christian villagers, mostly in tortures involving tatami mats. Father Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield), the last Portuguese padre in the country, wonders if... Read more »
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Live By Night: Fun, Dumb, And Full Of Guns
by Amy Nicholson | January 11, 2017 at 3:48 pm
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Most organized-crime dramas are structured like chess, two families knocking each other off the board while their pawns try to become kings. Ben Affleck’s Live by Night — which he wrote and directed — is a Prohibition-era gangster picture crossbred with a video game, where Affleck’s quest to control the bootleg rum business up and... Read more »
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