Kathryn Reklis

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Oct 4, 2026 No Other Choice is a wild mix of genres, blurring family drama, gangster violence, police procedural, and surreal comedy. Go to Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Oct 4, 2026 ...[Kleber Mendonça Filho ] injects the everyday violence of a corrupt and repressive society with the tension and style of a spy thriller, with flashes of the bizarre and surreal. Go to Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Oct 4, 2026 ...in a way that can only be seen to be believed, the dancing and singing are the beating heart of the film, and the deepest expression of Shaker spirituality. Go to Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 85% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Oct 4, 2026 The movie is held together by the electric wire of Jennifer Lawrence’s performance, which is so intensely embodied it is both exhilarating and unsettling. Go to Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Sep 4, 2026 The film is full of characters and situations that careen to the edge of the absurd... Go to Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Sep 4, 2026 Despite the characters’ initial assertions of love and the film’s conventional plot points, it was hard to see why marriage seemed compelling to either of them. Go to Full Review The Roses (2025) 64% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Sep 4, 2026 For all its silly physical comedy and increasingly absurd plot twists, the characters in Splitsville undergo something like a moral journey. Go to Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Jul 29, 2025 [Celine Song] offers a way to understand life as bounded by forces we cannot simply escape through agency and romantic willpower. Go to Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Jul 8, 2025 Much of the plot revolves around other people trying to exploit their devotion to each other for their own ends. But their monogamy isn’t a rule to be followed for other ends. It is an end in itself, and it’s their greatest asset. Go to Full Review Black Bag (2025) 96% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Jul 8, 2025 This may be Bong’s most ambitious movie yet, and it doesn’t hold together as tightly as some of his earlier attempts. Go to Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 77% 55%

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Jul 8, 2025 The parable [in Companion] is about not the danger of AI but the danger of resentful men who pass themselves off as nice guys. Go to Full Review Companion (2025) 93% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Jul 8, 2025 There is a wild, chaotic energy to the film that reminded me of 1990s indie filmmaking or the shocking bravura of early Quentin Tarantino. Go to Full Review Strange Darling (2023) 96% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Jul 8, 2025 [Robert Eggers's] movies are reminders that so much of what presents itself as common sense in our world is just a contingent arrangement, one form of folklore instead of another. Go to Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 85% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Jan 28, 2025 Watching Gladiator II, it is hard not to be a little suspicious about exactly what we are longing for in our Roman fantasies. Go to Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Nov 24, 2024 The Wild Robot is better than most -- most other kids’ movies and maybe most other philosophies, too. Go to Full Review The Wild Robot (2024) 97% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Sep 17, 2024 “Show, don’t tell,” a good director will tell you, and one of the easiest ways to show the power of the theater is to experience it yourself—or to watch someone else experience it. Go to Full Review Sing Sing (2023) 97% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Sep 17, 2024 It is one of those overblown statements theater people love to make about the power of the theater. We might even laugh a little bit, if we hadn’t just witnessed it happening before our very eyes. Go to Full Review Ghostlight (2024) 99% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Aug 6, 2024 It's not a great movie...it’s half-baked both as a breezy romantic comedy and as a stirring patriotic ode...but I appreciate how it understands the fundamental distrust toward manipulation that sits at the heart of conspiracy thinking. Go to Full Review Fly Me to the Moon (2024) 66% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Aug 6, 2024 Rather than glorifying war, the film is artful and meditative, making us feel the pointlessness of this violence, how unglamorous and exhausting and unheroic it is. Go to Full Review Civil War (2024) 81% - -

Kathryn Reklis The Christian Century Jun 24, 2024 It does offer us a new vision of growing up, one that rejects the dichotomy between serious adulthood and the joy of friendship—one in which there might be existence beyond exhaustion. This is something to take very seriously. Go to Full Review Babes (2024) 87% - -