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Catholic World Report

Catholic World Report is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer^® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Steven D. Greydanus.

Rating	Title \| Year	Author	Quote
	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)	Steven D. Greydanus	Full of the joy of discovery and the emotional generosity that is the soul of Into the Spider-Verse. It’s inventive, thrilling, funny, ridiculous, heartwarming, frenetic, and sad. Posted Jun 02, 2023 Edit critic review
	The Little Mermaid (2023)	Steven D. Greydanus	Suffers from the murky, underlit look common in Disney tentpoles. In underwater sequences the dimness ostensibly approximates realism, but the real function is to camouflage CGI quality issues. Too much fails at a basic level: It’s not worth looking at. Posted May 26, 2023 Edit critic review
	Creed III (2023)	Steven D. Greydanus	With his unnervingly nonchalant gaze and jaw jutting forward, Majors radiates hidden, explosive danger, and his formidably brawny physique makes an understatement of Dame’s boast to have kept in shape in prison. Posted Mar 03, 2023 Edit critic review
	Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)	Steven D. Greydanus	The scenes of Jake and Neytiri’s forest-dwelling family learning to adapt to marine life are full of a kind of joy that it seems Hollywood blockbusters have all but forgotten: that of seeing something unprecedented and wondrous. Posted Dec 16, 2022 Edit critic review
	Thirteen Lives (2022)	Steven D. Greydanus	I’m glad I saw both films, though ‘The Rescue’ is by far the more essential, and ‘Thirteen Lives’ covers a lot of the same ground. Posted Jul 31, 2022 Edit critic review
C-	Lightyear (2022)	Steven D. Greydanus	If Lightyear is Andy’s Star Wars, what an impoverished childhood Andy had. Posted Jun 15, 2022 Edit critic review
C-	Jurassic World Dominion (2022)	Steven D. Greydanus	For a while it seems ‘Dominion’ wants to be the franchise’s ‘Mission: Impossible.’ Instead, it’s the anti–‘Top Gun: Maverick’. Posted Jun 11, 2022 Edit critic review
A-	Top Gun: Maverick (2022)	Steven D. Greydanus	More than a nostalgia sequel or legacyquel; it is almost more than a movie. It is a manifesto and a monument, a defiant time capsule and a swaggering IMAX spectacle without precedent or peer. Posted May 25, 2022 Edit critic review
D+	Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)	Steven D. Greydanus	I’m thinking of a moment in the original movie in which Stephen looks skeptically at a deeply corrupted individual nattering about the greater good and retorts, “No. I mean, come on—look at your face.” Nobody says that in the sequel—but they should. Posted May 06, 2022 Edit critic review
	Petite Maman (2021)	Steven D. Greydanus	There's no place in a film like Petite Maman for world-bending sorcery or flux capacitors, but the elegant simplicity of what Sciamma does with an unexplained wrinkle in the fabric of reality speaks as eloquently to those longings as any film I've seen. Posted Apr 23, 2022 Edit critic review
	Father Stu (2022)	Steven D. Greydanus	Wahlberg compellingly inhabits his character's struggles, and the screenplay is decently structured even when it sometimes lacks persuasive depth or context. Posted Apr 14, 2022 Edit critic review
	The Godfather (1972)	Steven D. Greydanus	Now half a century old, Francis Ford Coppola's revered New Hollywood masterpiece has one of the best-known final shots in film history - but it almost had a much more Catholic ending. Posted Apr 08, 2022 Edit critic review
A-	Cyrano (2021)	Steven D. Greydanus	Dinklage swaggers and glowers magnificently and sings decently, but he's at his best in quiet, intimate moments, especially with Roxanne and with his confidante Le Bret, the only one who sees his pain. Posted Feb 24, 2022 Edit critic review
B+	Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)	Steven D. Greydanus	Crossover comfort food with a redemptive twist. Posted Jan 07, 2022 Edit critic review