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‘Unbroken: Path to Redemption’  oversimplifies conversion and healing
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‘Unbroken: Path to Redemption’ oversimplifies conversion and healing

When floating in a raft on the sea, half-dead, and hallucinating, Louis Zamperini gazed up at the stars and whispered to God: “If you save me, I will serve you forever.”  As told by Laura Hillenbrand in Zamperini’s biography and in Angelina Jolie’s feature-film adaptation, “Unbroken,” Zamperini, an olympic athlete and American soldier during WWII...

‘The Nun’ resorts to cheap scares
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‘The Nun’ resorts to cheap scares

“The Nun” was one of the more anticipated horror films of the pre-Halloween menu of movies this year. Previews depicted it as horrifically demonic and rooted in conflict between the earthly and the supernatural, the mundane and the sacred, between heaven and hell. What moviegoers will get instead is a film full of jump scares,...

Should Kendrick have won the Pulitzer Prize?
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Should Kendrick have won the Pulitzer Prize?

Kendrick Lamar beat out a string quartet and a cantata to take the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for music on Monday. That’s an extra $15,000 and another notch in the Compton rapper’s belt for his Grammy-winning album “DAMN.” The Pulitzer Prize website described the rapper’s album as “a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity...

‘A Quiet Place’ pairs horror and parenthood
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‘A Quiet Place’ pairs horror and parenthood

Getting a hand squeezed until it’s purple and refusing to breathe for 95 minutes on a Friday night is the only way to view “A Quiet Place.” If a pregnant friend is present to soak in the mother-protecting-her-young narrative, it’s a trifecta. Director John Krasinski stars as family man Lee in his new horror movie,...