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What the new Netflix drama can teach us about the interdependency of orthodoxy and reform.

Taraji P. Henson says her faith influenced her decision to play Ann Atwater, the Christian woman who got the head of the Ku Klux Klan to consider integrating Durham schools.

The keepers of our nostalgia want to peddle it to us again and again.

Why do films like ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ urge us to rejoice in the death of the wicked?

A new documentary shows how a gentle Presbyterian minister turned TV inside out.

Fox’s new A. A. Milne biopic is more Eeyore than Tigger—but maybe that’s a good thing.

At long last, Paul Schrader’s cinematic masterpiece.

A slate of four films highlight journalists' ongoing quest to share truth.

New documentaries profile the easily overlooked experiences of female veterans and male convicts.

The pilot for the upcoming Starz series raises provocative questions about worship and divinity.

Movie one of three telling stories of sub-Saharan Africa this year.

Looking for peace in all the wrong places.

Movies old and new have wrestled with how to depict the supernatural.

Turn down the volume on this new documentary and the structure and techniques look a lot like Sunday morning.

Public conversations about freedom are important, nuanced, difficult things that demand art.

Daryl Davis has a startling method for converting racists: he befriends them.

Things change, especially our notions of what is acceptable behavior in a civilized society.

How do we judge good acting? And why does it matter?

It's not a satire. It's not a comedy. It's not anything, really.