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La La Land

This is a beautiful film about love and dreams, and how the two impact each other.

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Deepwater Horizon

Everything here feels routine—more like an inevitability than a work of art or even a piece of entertainment.

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Ballad of Narayama

"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…

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Alissa Wilkinson is a critic, journalist, and professor living in Brooklyn. Her work appears at Vulture, Rolling Stone, Pacific Standard, Books & Culture, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. She is co-author, with Rob Joustra, of How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World (Eerdmans, 2016) and is at work on Orphaned Believers: Reframing Religion in the Age of Faith-Based Film (The Critical Press, 2017). Alissa is Christianity Today's critic at large and an assistant professor of English and humanities at The King's College in downtown Manhattan. She tweets @alissamarie.

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