Michelle Duy

The low-budget Christian drama Dispatched is like a movie version of a street preacher. You may have been just going about your daily business, but it grabs you by the shirt collar. It gets right up i...
From the producer of Get Out and Us , Antebellum (2020) is hard to watch as it depicts the realities of slavery. Everything from branding a human being to committing rape and murder is vividly portray...
In the Christian dramedy Small Group (2018), an agnostic filmmaker named Roman Scott Cooper ( Sterling Hurst ) goes undercover to explore evangelical religion. His producer Ballard ( Robert Riechel Jr...
I’ll say this about The Assistant : it’ll probably make you appreciate your own boss. That person is almost guaranteed to be better than the nameless tyrant dominating The Assistant . The movie depict...
Knives Out (2019) is a clever murder mystery from writer and director Rian Johnson , the best quality of which is its awesome ensemble cast: Christopher Plummer, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Toni Co...
There’s a shocking, telling moment late in the movie Harriet (2019). Referring to a group of escaped slaves, the villain Gideon ( Joe Elwyn ) calls them “three bucks and a female with foal.” Of course...
Movies like Miracles from Heaven and Heaven Is for Real tell allegedly true stories of divine intervention. The latest such movie is 2019’s Breakthrough . About four years ago in Missouri, teenager Jo...
When Una ( Rooney Mara ) was 13, her neighbor Ray molested her. They carried on a secret 3-month long relationship, at which point they planned to run away together. But then Ray ( Ben Mendelsohn ) di...
In 1991, New York biographer Lee Israel ( Melissa McCarthy ) finds herself in dire straits: she has lost her job, fallen 3 months behind on rent and can’t afford the vet bills for her beloved sick cat...
If you’re watching God’s Not Dead: A Light in the Darkness , chances are you already believe in God. Like its two previous installments, God’s Not Dead 3 comes from family friendly studio Pure Flix an...
The trailers for Night School looked so promising. With talented comic actors like Tiffany Haddish ( Girls Trip ) and Kevin Hart , how could they go wrong? Rob Riggle , rapper Fat Joe and Taran Killam...
When successful New York photographer Ronit ( Rachel Weisz ) finds out that her rabbi father died, she flies home to London and stays with her married friends, Dovid ( Alessandro Nivola ) and Esti ( R...
So many movies have been made about inspiring teachers, you wonder what’s left to say about them. But the indie drama Miss Stevens tells a fresh new story about a very human, flawed English teacher na...
It can’t be easy to emote well under a face full of prosthetics, but Jacob Tremblay does a great job doing just that in Wonder. Based on the bestselling children’s novel by R. J. Palacio, Wonder tells...
When most people hear the word “history,” they think of a dry, boring subject full of dull facts to memorize. But that’s not the impression you get from Denial, based on the true story of a historian...

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