Reviews

“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.

Intriguing connections are made and emotional insights provided in the course of the animated adventure “Elio” (Disney).

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Just as “The Chosen” wrapped up the release of Season 5 in the U.S., the hit series about Jesus and those who knew him was set …

Sadly, “Civilization VII” (2K Games) is another disappointing successor to “Sid Meier’s Civilization.”