Movie Reviews

The same filmmakers behind Woodlawn, Mom’s Night Out and October Baby are set to release their next film in just a few days – and director Jon Erwin believes it might be their best one yet. I Can Only Imagine (PG) will debut in theaters Friday (March 16), telling the story behind one of the most popular songs in the history of Christian contemporary music. The film follows the life of MercyMe lead singer Bart Millard, who grew up in a home with an abusive father but then watched his dad come to Christ later in life.

Meg is a timid, insecure girl living in a world that doesn’t embrace such flaws. At school, she gets ridiculed. At home, she lays awake at night and wonders why she’s not liked. Even the principal thinks she’s a bit awkward. “You shut everybody out, and then wonder why they don’t like you,” he tells her.

The gut-wrenching and inspirational story of Wurmbrand is well-known to Christians worldwide thanks to a series of books he wrote, but on Monday night (March 5) moviegoers will have a chance to watch his story unfold on the big screen when Tortured for Christ – based on the 1967 best-selling book by the same name -- debuts. It was produced by The Voice of the Martyrs and will be in theaters only one night.

“Dug” is a smart, forward-thinking boy living in a village of mostly unmotivated and dim-witted people. Such is life for a young caveman in the prehistoric Stone Age. He wants to hunt buffalo, but his fellow tribesmen are content with small rabbits. He wants to fight the army that attacked his village, but the tribesmen want to retreat.

T’Challa is a young prince who also happens to be heir to the throne of Wakanda, a Third World African country that’s among the poorest nations on Earth. At least, it seems that way.

Old Testament movies on the big screen don’t have a solid track record in the modern era. The 2014 film Exodus: Gods and Kings got a lot of things right but also largely omitted, well, God. That same year, the movie Noah took so many liberties that by the end of it you were left wondering: Was that supposed to be a Bible story?

Thomas McGregor is a self-centered department store employee who wants only one thing out of life: to climb the corporate ladder. Of course, life rarely goes as planned. It started going downhill when he learned that the company slackie got the much-coveted promotion. Then, Thomas discovered that a great uncle (“Mr. McGregor”) passed away and left him a rural cottage. ...

Thomas is a brave young man living in a dystopian world full of desolate cities, rusted cars and blowing tumbleweed. He’s also one of the few healthy people left on the planet, which makes he and his friends – who also are healthy – curiosities to society. That’s because something called the “flare virus” has ravaged the population, turning anyone ...

Katharine Graham is a 1970s female newspaper publisher working in a man’s world. Her board at The Washington Post is all male. Her newsroom is nearly all male. And when she chats on the phone with a politician or big wig, it is almost always – you guessed it – with a man. Few people believe she’s qualified, but perhaps ...

Liam Page is a world-famous country singer who has everything the world can offer: big houses, beautiful women, and fans who idolize his every move. Yet despite his wealth, he often thinks about Josie, the fiancé he abandoned on their wedding day eight years earlier in their hometown of St. Augustine, La, when he was young and immature. It seems ...