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Kathryn Reklis

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Materialists (2025) 77% EDIT “[Celine Song] offers a way to understand life as bounded by forces we cannot simply escape through agency and romantic willpower.” – The Christian Century Jul 29, 2025 Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% EDIT “Much of the plot revolves around other people trying to exploit their devotion to each other for their own ends. But their monogamy isn’t a rule to be followed for other ends. It is an end in itself, and it’s their greatest asset.” – The Christian Century Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% EDIT “This may be Bong’s most ambitious movie yet, and it doesn’t hold together as tightly as some of his earlier attempts. ” – The Christian Century Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Companion (2025) 93% EDIT “The parable [in Companion] is about not the danger of AI but the danger of resentful men who pass themselves off as nice guys.” – The Christian Century Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Strange Darling (2023) 96% EDIT “There is a wild, chaotic energy to the film that reminded me of 1990s indie filmmaking or the shocking bravura of early Quentin Tarantino.” – The Christian Century Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 85% EDIT “[Robert Eggers's] movies are reminders that so much of what presents itself as common sense in our world is just a contingent arrangement, one form of folklore instead of another.” – The Christian Century Jul 8, 2025 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% EDIT “Watching Gladiator II, it is hard not to be a little suspicious about exactly what we are longing for in our Roman fantasies.” – The Christian Century Jan 28, 2025 Full Review The Wild Robot (2024) 97% EDIT “The Wild Robot is better than most -- most other kids’ movies and maybe most other philosophies, too.” – The Christian Century Nov 24, 2024 Full Review Sing Sing (2023) 97% EDIT ““Show, don’t tell,” a good director will tell you, and one of the easiest ways to show the power of the theater is to experience it yourself—or to watch someone else experience it. ” – The Christian Century Sep 17, 2024 Full Review Ghostlight (2024) 99% EDIT “It is one of those overblown statements theater people love to make about the power of the theater. We might even laugh a little bit, if we hadn’t just witnessed it happening before our very eyes.” – The Christian Century Sep 17, 2024 Full Review Fly Me to the Moon (2024) 66% EDIT “It's not a great movie...it’s half-baked both as a breezy romantic comedy and as a stirring patriotic ode...but I appreciate how it understands the fundamental distrust toward manipulation that sits at the heart of conspiracy thinking.” – The Christian Century Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Civil War (2024) 81% EDIT “Rather than glorifying war, the film is artful and meditative, making us feel the pointlessness of this violence, how unglamorous and exhausting and unheroic it is.” – The Christian Century Aug 6, 2024 Full Review Babes (2024) 87% EDIT “It does offer us a new vision of growing up, one that rejects the dichotomy between serious adulthood and the joy of friendship—one in which there might be existence beyond exhaustion. This is something to take very seriously.” – The Christian Century Jun 24, 2024 Full Review Wicked Little Letters (2023) 80% EDIT “It is a lighthearted film that doesn’t fully grasp the red-hot rage at its center.” – The Christian Century May 6, 2024 Full Review The Holdovers (2023) 97% EDIT “If 2024 might finally break the stranglehold of franchise storytelling, may The Holdovers be the harbinger of what's to come.” – The Christian Century Jan 26, 2024 Full Review American Fiction (2023) 93% EDIT “Characters learn from each other, they grow and change—but not completely, and life keeps going. This used to be the basic form of most movies, but now it feels rare and precious.” – The Christian Century Jan 26, 2024 Full Review Eileen (2023) 81% EDIT “The story is meant to make us a little queasy, our initial judgments called up short. But it is a mistake to think that our own discomfort implies that these films have only vague or shallow moral vision.” – The Christian Century Dec 29, 2023 Full Review May December (2023) 91% EDIT “A brilliant addition to a specialized genre of films.” – The Christian Century Dec 29, 2023 Full Review Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 93% EDIT “In Martin Scorcese’s telling of the Osage Indian murders, all the violent contradictions of history unfold in domestic intimacy.” – The Christian Century Dec 4, 2023 Full Review Bottoms (2023) 91% EDIT “The characters are confused and frustrated, but ultimately so much wiser than I could ever imagine being at 16.” – The Christian Century Oct 27, 2023 Full Review Barbie (2023) 88% EDIT “Barbie is not a perfect movie, but it is a conversation, and a conversation worth having. For me, Barbie brought the unexpected pleasure of finding shared experiences in our fractured, factious age. ” – The Christian Century Aug 25, 2023 Full Review Asteroid City (2023) 76% EDIT “For the first time in a while, I remembered what it felt like to be all in with Anderson, and it made me want to watch all over again.” – The Christian Century Jul 24, 2023 Full Review Air (2023) 93% EDIT “These movies don’t really want to explain that magical transformation as much as participate in the magic themselves.” – The Christian Century Jun 22, 2023 Full Review Tetris (2023) 81% EDIT “Even though my best friend got a Game Boy in 1990 with Tetris in the box, I was on the edge of my seat to see how the deal would close.” – The Christian Century Jun 22, 2023 Full Review BlackBerry (2023) 97% EDIT “[It] turns what would be a boring story about corporate strategy into high stakes drama.” – The Christian Century Jun 22, 2023 Full Review
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