Decent Films

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Jul 25, 2026 Like the filmmaker’s last work, ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘The Odyssey’ has a downbeat, apocalyptic bent—but, unlike ‘Oppenheimer,’ or any previous Nolan film, the new film is also centrally about what human beings owe one another. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Jun 12, 2026 Like The X-Files’s Fox Mulder, Spielberg wants to believe: in aliens, perhaps; in God, probably; in his fellow human being, definitely. In Disclosure Day, these longings are not discrete; they overlap almost to the point of identification. Go to Full Review Disclosure Day (2026) 79% - -

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films May 21, 2026 A kind of movie that Hollywood has all but forgotten how to make, if they ever knew. Go to Full Review The Sheep Detectives (2026) 95% - -

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Dec 13, 2025 Both a welcome departure and a gratifying return to form.… Knives Out turns on the heroine being a good and caring nurse; that Fr. Jud is a good and caring priest is even more important here. Go to Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% - -

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Jun 19, 2025 The kind of movie that Lightyear should have been… Where other recent Pixar releases have been distinctly adolescent coming-of-age stories, Elio is fantastical escapism for children. Go to Full Review Elio (2025) 83% - -

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Jun 6, 2025 Lovingly adapted from Stephen King’s novella of the same name, The Life of Chuck was written and directed by Mike Flanagan, for whom the material is so well suited that King might as well have written it for him. Go to Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% - -

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Sep 28, 2024 If it’s not a perfect movie, it’s the best kind of mostly perfect movie: the kind where the missteps, if they are missteps, don’t diminish the delight of the perfect parts. Go to Full Review The Wild Robot (2024) 97% - -

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films May 10, 2024 Brims with passion and integrity. I’m grateful that it exists. Go to Full Review Wildcat (2023) 59% - -

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Mar 21, 2024 As single-minded as its protagonist, Cabrini drives home in every scene its themes of human dignity—particularly the dignity of women and marginalized groups including immigrants and the poor—and solidarity in the face of prejudice and social injustice. Go to Full Review Cabrini (2024) 91% - -

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Mar 4, 2024 Exceeds expectations in every way—except humanity. Go to Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% 75%

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Jul 15, 2023 Demaizière and Teurlai are nonbelievers, but their observational method is respectful and open-minded. Go to Full Review Lourdes (2019) 100% 91%

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Jun 16, 2023 When a significant part of the conflict in a cartoon about talking elemental beings turns on urban infrastructure problems, building code violations, and city bureaucracy, something has gone off the rails. Go to Full Review Elemental (2023) 73% 93%

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Mar 11, 2022 Switching up the familiar parental overbearing or understanding roles can have humanizing implications for both fathers and mothers. Moms, like dads, are only human, and dads are, in a different sense, no less human than moms. Go to Full Review Turning Red (2022) 95% 68%

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films May 1, 2021 A Far from being morality tales, these short stories are closer to parables — at least, they are as confounding and strange as Jesus' parables were to his first hearers. Go to Full Review The Decalogue (1989) 100% 98%

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Feb 26, 2020 A- Not a remake of the 1939 classic but a new adaptation of Hilton's sentimental novella... couldn't be more different from the 1939 film, and that's all to the good. Go to Full Review Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2002) - - 79%

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Jun 18, 2019 Forgiveness is a radical act. So is speaking against injustices suffered by minorities but easily overlooked by the majority. 'Emanuel' challenges viewers to recognize the importance of both. Go to Full Review Emanuel (2019) 100% 98%

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Jun 2, 2017 B Invests Princess Diana with possibly the most genuinely heroic characterization of any modern cinematic superhero. Go to Full Review Wonder Woman (2017) 93% 83%

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films May 5, 2017 C- What doesn't work, alas, are the big things: the main story involving Peter and his real space dad, played by Kurt Russell, and the romantic "unspoken thing" between Peter and Gamora. Go to Full Review Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) 85% 87%

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Sep 15, 2016 B It may be one-sided, but it's also genuinely moving, even to the viewer who doesn't share the band's world, or not entirely. Go to Full Review Hillsong: Let Hope Rise (2016) 67% 78%

Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Mar 10, 2016 A Offers an imaginative vision of the most iconic and celebrated family in human history that is both surprising and familiar, warmly human and credible yet also different. Go to Full Review The Young Messiah (2016) 50% 66%