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The Christian Century

The Christian Century is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Kathryn Reklis.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Materialists (2025) Kathryn Reklis [Celine Song] offers a way to understand life as bounded by forces we cannot simply escape through agency and romantic willpower.
Posted Jul 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Black Bag (2025) Kathryn Reklis 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.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Mickey 17 (2025) Kathryn Reklis This may be Bong’s most ambitious movie yet, and it doesn’t hold together as tightly as some of his earlier attempts.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Companion (2025) Kathryn Reklis The parable [in Companion] is about not the danger of AI but the danger of resentful men who pass themselves off as nice guys.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Strange Darling (2023) Kathryn Reklis There is a wild, chaotic energy to the film that reminded me of 1990s indie filmmaking or the shocking bravura of early Quentin Tarantino.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Nosferatu (2024) Kathryn Reklis [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.
Posted Jul 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Gladiator II (2024) Kathryn Reklis Watching Gladiator II, it is hard not to be a little suspicious about exactly what we are longing for in our Roman fantasies.
Posted Jan 28, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wild Robot (2024) Kathryn Reklis The Wild Robot is better than most -- most other kids’ movies and maybe most other philosophies, too.
Posted Nov 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Sing Sing (2023) Kathryn Reklis “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.
Posted Sep 17, 2024  Edit critic review
Ghostlight (2024) Kathryn Reklis 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.
Posted Sep 17, 2024  Edit critic review
Fly Me to the Moon (2024) Kathryn Reklis 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.
Posted Aug 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Civil War (2024) Kathryn Reklis 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.
Posted Aug 06, 2024  Edit critic review
Babes (2024) Kathryn Reklis 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.
Posted Jun 24, 2024  Edit critic review
Wicked Little Letters (2023) Kathryn Reklis It is a lighthearted film that doesn’t fully grasp the red-hot rage at its center.
Posted May 06, 2024  Edit critic review
The Holdovers (2023) Kathryn Reklis If 2024 might finally break the stranglehold of franchise storytelling, may The Holdovers be the harbinger of what's to come.
Posted Jan 26, 2024  Edit critic review
American Fiction (2023) Kathryn Reklis 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.
Posted Jan 26, 2024  Edit critic review
Eileen (2023) Kathryn Reklis 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.
Posted Dec 29, 2023  Edit critic review
May December (2023) Kathryn Reklis A brilliant addition to a specialized genre of films.
Posted Dec 29, 2023  Edit critic review
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) Kathryn Reklis In Martin Scorcese’s telling of the Osage Indian murders, all the violent contradictions of history unfold in domestic intimacy.
Posted Dec 04, 2023  Edit critic review
Bottoms (2023) Kathryn Reklis The characters are confused and frustrated, but ultimately so much wiser than I could ever imagine being at 16.
Posted Oct 27, 2023  Edit critic review
Barbie (2023) Kathryn Reklis 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.
Posted Aug 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Asteroid City (2023) Kathryn Reklis 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.
Posted Jul 24, 2023  Edit critic review
Air (2023) Kathryn Reklis These movies don’t really want to explain that magical transformation as much as participate in the magic themselves.
Posted Jun 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Tetris (2023) Kathryn Reklis 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.
Posted Jun 22, 2023  Edit critic review
BlackBerry (2023) Kathryn Reklis [It] turns what would be a boring story about corporate strategy into high stakes drama.
Posted Jun 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Flamin' Hot (2023) Kathryn Reklis The suspense and drama of the commodity biopic work without the need for either accuracy or mystery.
Posted Jun 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) Kathryn Reklis Fremon Craig’s film captures the joyful, curious, respectful perspective that has made Blume’s book such a mainstay of contemporary coming-of-age stories because it trusts its middle school protagonists.
Posted May 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Broker (2022) Kathryn Reklis Like a song worming its way into your consciousness in the rainy night air, Kore-eda offers us a film about all the ways we can learn the transformative possibili­ties of forgiveness, including from the movies.
Posted Apr 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Women Talking (2022) Kathryn Reklis Women Talking examines the collective power of women’s words for a MeToo era.
Posted Feb 27, 2023  Edit critic review
She Said (2022) Kathryn Reklis She Said is remarkably restrained, almost muted.
Posted Feb 27, 2023  Edit critic review
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) Kathryn Reklis A murder mystery can provide sharp social commentary—and great fun.
Posted Jan 13, 2023  Edit critic review
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) Kathryn Reklis Much like the Star Wars galaxy or Tolkien's Middle Earth, Wakanda is becoming the realest kind of fictional place, one that inspires collaboration by artists and writers and ordinary fans.
Posted Dec 16, 2022  Edit critic review
Tár (2022) Kathryn Reklis Instead of offering us exposition or internal monologues, Field brings us into the flow of time of his characters, which is life itself.
Posted Oct 28, 2022  Edit critic review
Nope (2022) Kathryn Reklis Peele has emerged as one of the great living filmmakers by marrying the genre conventions of science fiction and horror with deep, layered social commentary.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Prey (2022) Kathryn Reklis Prey critiques the assumption that survival requires dominance.
Posted Oct 07, 2022  Edit critic review
Fire of Love (2022) Kathryn Reklis Fire of Love reminds us that they are also art of the highest order, a demand on our minds and hearts to pay attention, maybe especially to that which we cannot easily understand.
Posted Aug 23, 2022  Edit critic review
Jurassic World Dominion (2022) Kathryn Reklis The latest film seems to have forgotten one of the delights of dinosaur nerdery: imagining the world without humans.
Posted Aug 12, 2022  Edit critic review
Mr. Malcolm's List (2022) Kathryn Reklis No attempt is made to explain, for example, how 19th-century England could have acquired the ornamental luxury that makes the period so glitzy...
Posted Jul 29, 2022  Edit critic review
Fire Island (2022) Kathryn Reklis Every generation deserves its own adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, and Gen Z got a gem in Fire Island.
Posted Jul 29, 2022  Edit critic review
Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) Kathryn Reklis This seems to be what Fellowes wants most of all in his own work: to transport us to a make-believe world where we get the beautiful objects without brutality and inequality...
Posted Jul 11, 2022  Edit critic review
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Kathryn Reklis It has been a long time since I’ve seen a movie that both transported me so fully out of my mundane life and made me want to hug my kids and call my mom and appreciate my spouse’s penchant for corny jokes -- in this life, or in any others.
Posted Jun 02, 2022  Edit critic review
Turning Red (2022) Kathryn Reklis Turning Red manages to take a viewer into these deep waters without losing the playfulness and silly humor that make it a top-notch family movie.
Posted May 04, 2022  Edit critic review
The Batman (2022) Kathryn Reklis I didn’t think I wanted another Batman movie. But it turns out that Matt Reeves’s The Batman -- starring Robert Pattinson, who played Edward Cullen in the Twilight films -- has the Batman we need.
Posted Apr 08, 2022  Edit critic review
Moonfall (2022) Kathryn Reklis If you accept that movies like this exist primarily for the aesthetic pleasures of CGI-enhanced disaster montages, there is an exuberant absurdity to Emmerich’s canon...
Posted Mar 14, 2022  Edit critic review
Don't Look Up (2021) Kathryn Reklis Don’t Look Up ultimately feels like just one more disaster movie: it is far easier—and maybe even more fun—to imagine the apocalyptic end of the world than to imagine how we could live in a radically different way now to prevent it.
Posted Mar 14, 2022  Edit critic review
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) Kathryn Reklis This is Tammy’s spiritual gift, the movie suggests: an exuberant love of life and of other people that is fueled by her sense of God’s capacious, inexhaustible love...
Posted Feb 04, 2022  Edit critic review
The Power of the Dog (2021) Kathryn Reklis In Campion's subversive new western, the filmmaker's fascination with the myth of masculinity unfolds in 1920s Montana.
Posted Jan 15, 2022  Edit critic review
Nine Days (2020) Kathryn Reklis Neither the myth nor the morals of this movie held together for me.
Posted Sep 23, 2021  Edit critic review
The Green Knight (2021) Kathryn Reklis These moral explorations are carefully handled, with clever inversions of timeline that produce just enough of a puzzle quality to give the viewer something to work out when leaving the theater. But the movie enthralled me most in its visual meditations.
Posted Sep 23, 2021  Edit critic review
In the Heights (2021) Kathryn Reklis This is, of course, part of what makes great art: the capacity to withstand both devotion and critique. Which is a good thing, since I am confident that Miranda is going to be part of our soundtrack for many years to come.
Posted Jul 01, 2021  Edit critic review
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