Voices
John Anderson is a television critic for The Wall Street Journal and a contributor to The New York Times.
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In “Judy,” the utterly endearing Judy Garland—birdlike, brittle, addicted to pills and booze—is also a junkie for the standing O.
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We must accept that Quentin Tarantino will never make a serious movie—by which is meant a movie that takes itself seriously.
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“American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel” is about like-minded liberal Christians joining forces in a ruthlessly Republican landscape where people talk more religion than they practice.
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Woody’s penchant for self-sacrifice is just one of the aspects that has been recycled for “Toy Story 4” and while you would have to be a Grinch to find any faults in the new film, there are a few.
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On June 17, 2015, a 23-year-old white supremacist killed nine African-Americans during a Bible study at the historic Emanuel A.M.E. Church.
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There is a very Christian concept underlying “Rocketman,” namely Elton’s redemption—even if it is from his own biography.
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There was a moment during “Aladdin” when I thought, “This would have made a terrific animated movie.”
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The John Ronald Reuel Tolkien of Dome Karukoski’s film has all the raw ingredients he needs to become J. R. R. Tolkien.
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The new film is in many ways an act of love, an effort to tell its story both freshly and honestly, with fidelity to Scripture.
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Under a remarkably convincing recreation of 1819 England is both the brutality and the self-righteousness exhibited by the haves, when the have-nots ask for more.