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- A Week Away. A troubled teenage boy finds faith, hope and romance when he attends a Christian summer camp. The film is a Disney-like musical that features some of the top Christian tunes from the past two decades – as well as a few new ones.
- Blue Miracle. A financially strapped orphanage is given new life when its residents team up with a washed-up fisherman to enter the lucrative Bisbee’s Black & Blue Fishing Tournament.
- The Jesus Music. It’s a landmark documentary about contemporary Christian music (CCM), beginning with the hippie movement of the 1960s and 1970s and continuing up to the modern-day.
- Show Me the Father. It’s a life-changing documentary that examines the biblical roles of fathers while weaving in biblical truths about the Fatherhood of God.
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1.Belfast
Few films gave me more joy this year than Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical film about a working class family in 1960s Belfast. Though The Troublesof Protestant-Catholic conflict are in the background in important ways—the foreground here is family: three generations of a Northern Irish Protestant family who have called Belfast home for ages. I love so much about this movie: its depictions of traditional married love; the awe and innocence of 9-year-old Buddy; the beautiful embrace of m...
2.Dune
I went into Dune with zero context, having never read Frank Herbert’s novel or seen the 1984 movie version. I worried I’d be lost in such a complex sci-fi universe—and I was, a little. But it’s a testament to director Denis Villeneuve’s command of the cinematic language that tracking with the intricacies of plot didn’t matter as much as the big-canvas power of awesome visuals, sound design, and deep immersion into a well-established world. Villeneuve doesn’t spoon-feed audiences with tiresome...
3.Nine Days
When it released in July, I called Edson Oda’s Nine Days “2021’s most spiritually curious film.” I’d still stand by that. A Spike Jonze-esque surrealist drama about “soul candidates” vying for a chance at life, the indie film explores the most fundamental questions of existence. Why do we exist when we didn’t have to? If an omnipotent God has the power to create life, why doesn’t he intervene when life goes so excruciatingly awry? Even if not all of the film’s ideas are logical or sound, enou...
Drive MyCar, Encanto, The Green Knight, Mass(TGC review), Licorice Pizza, The Most Reluctant Convert (TGC review), Our Friend(TGC review), Spiderman: Far From Home, Swan Song, West Side Story.
Here are 10 of my favorite documentaries or docuseries released in 2021 (listed in alphabetical order), along with where you can watch them.
When Jesus rises from death, they discover hope lives on in them and prepare to spread the Gospel. Jesus' followers are hunted and leaderless in the aftermath of the Crucifixion.
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- Juan Pablo Di Pace
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- Faith & Spirituality
- 'Mass' (2021) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95% Mass is the story of one conversation that takes place entirely in a church basement. Two sets of parents who are connected by tragedy meet in an attempt to heal from the deaths of both of their sons.
- 'First Reformed' (2018) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94% First Reformed deals with crises of faith. Ethan Hawke plays Father Toller, pastor of a historic church in upstate New York with a dying congregation.
- 'Women Talking' (2023) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90% Women Talking is just what it sounds like. The film centers around a conversation between female representatives of a Mennonite community in Bolivia who must decide together how to respond to a crisis in their community.
- 'Calvary' (2014) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89% Calvary follows the story of a sincere, yet imperfect priest seeking to minister to a town that is burdened by sin and doubt.
Oct 3, 2024 · Here are the best 20 Christian movies on Netflix to watch—at all times of the year, but most especially as we start thinking about the approaching holiday season.
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Feb 25, 2021 · Plugged In Movie Awards: 2021: Best Christian Movies. Paul Asay. February 25, 2021. Nominations for our final Plugged In Movie Awards category lands … well, right below these few introductory sentences. It was a pretty interesting year for Christian movies, and our slate of worthy nominees feels more diverse than in some past years: From ...
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"Journey with Jesus", informs the audience that everywhere where Jesus journeyed and performed a miracle, a magnificent church has been erected to commemorate the works of Christ. To a true believer, it doesn't matter whether the topography of Jesus' travels are 100% precise!
