Reviews

For better or worse, the sports biopic “The Smashing Machine” (A24) registers as a highly realistic film.

The two-act musical “Bernadette of Lourdes” will begin an American tour in 2026, and a video of the show in French with subtitles will be in theaters Sept. 28-29, 2025.

(OSV News) — After climbing the podcast charts with “Rosary in a Year,” Father Mark-Mary Ames of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal recently released “Eight Promises of God: Discovering Hope …

“Living and Dying Well: A Catholic Plan for Resisting Physician-Assisted Killing” Charles Camosy, Our Sunday Visitor (2025) 184 pages, $20.95 The slogan many proponents and supporters of euthanasia and physician-assisted …

This intermittently amusing comedy, a sendup of the hardboiled cop genre, may qualify as a fun spoof for grown-ups. Yet one sequence of utterly tasteless sexual sight gags will leave …

NEW YORK (OSV News) – With “Smurfs” (Paramount), a blend of animation and live action, director Chris Miller has given the titular blue elves, Belgian cartoonist Peyo’s trademark creatures, a …

Old-fashioned in the best sense, “Superman” celebrates the small-town values with which its protagonist was raised. Yet the screenplay aims for contemporary resonance as well.

“If You Can Get It” deserves praise for its dry wit, its keen insight into the difficulties and ironies of our global supply chain and its touchingly human depiction of …

Offered big money by the representative of a pharmaceutical company to help retrieve dinosaur DNA, two special operatives veterans and a paleontologist join on a journey to a remote equatorial …

‘Tis the season for popcorn pictures and the slick but shallow sports drama “F1 the Movie” (Warner Bros.) fits the bill.