Watch This Way
How we watch matters at least as much as what we watch. TV and movies are more than entertainment: they teach us how to live and how to love one another, for better or worse. And they both mirror and shape our culture.
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First Love, Last Love: Courtship Culture and the Teen Cancer Romance
Movies like 'A Walk to Remember,' 'Twilight,' and 'The Fault in Our Stars' have picked up on a key facet of the way we talk about teen romance.
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When Art Doesn't Make Us Better People
"The Club," a disturbing film about guilt and damnation, raises questions about art that resists creating empathy.
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Twenty Movies That Stuck With Me in 2015
Among the year's movies, twenty of them resonated deeply with our chief film critic.
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Why We Get Religious About ‘Star Wars’
What accounts for our religious devotion—and our need to shoehorn 'Star Wars' into our own theology?
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Watching 'Chi-Raq' During Advent
Spike Lee's latest joint is here to teach us what lament really looks like.
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Why The New ‘Feminist’ Rom-Com Is a Lie
It's no good to deny that we're both emotional and sexual beings.
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Laughing At, Or Laughing With?
When is it okay to laugh at characters in a documentary - and when does that laughter cross a line?
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Just Try Something: A Dispatch from the New York Film Festival
When it comes to movies, it might be better to try and fail than to play it too safe.
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Film Festivals, Social Issues, and First World Guilt
Films like 'Beasts of No Nation' raise our awareness of global tragedies. Is that enough?
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The Long Tail: No Man Is An Island
Films (and one television show) about community you can watch at home.
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'A.D. The Bible Continues' Concludes (For Now)
Telling the story of the early Church in a way that speaks to modern Christians while keeping curious non-believers entertained can't be easy.
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'A.D. The Bible Continues': Not Every Story is a Conversion Story
The penultimate episode leaves us wondering why these writers imagine evil much more easily than good.
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'A.D. The Bible Continues': Who Exactly is James?
There are some surprises in the tenth episode of the NBC miniseries, when the show also says goodbye to Saul.
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'A.D. The Bible Continues': Saul, Peter, and the Skeptics
As the NBC miniseries continues, it makes use of some texts outside Acts—but only some.
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'A.D. The Bible Continues': A Magician and a Patroness
Saul's been converted, but it's going to get worse before it gets better.
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‘A.D. The Bible Continues’: Fiction and Fact
In the seventh episode, the historical fiction overwhelms the text.
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'A.D. The Bible Continues': Enter Saul
The NBC miniseries covers one of the most important chapters, and figures, in the book of Acts.
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'A.D. The Bible Continues': Insult and Injury
There's something strange about the Stephen in this episode of the NBC miniseries.
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The Long Tail: ‘Marie’s Story,’ ‘The Nun,’ and ‘(Dis)honesty’
Two nuns, a behavioral economist, and the ninth commandment.
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Biblical Epics Are Not Documentaries
They're not journalism, either. But that's okay. They're something else.
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