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Snitch Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V 6-; L -6; S/N -1. Running time: 1 hour 55 min. Give ear to my prayer, O God; do not hide yourself from my supplication. Attend to me, and answer me; I am troubled in my complaint. I am distraught 3by the noise of the enemy, because of the …
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Rated R. Our ratings: V -3; L -5; S/N -2. Running time: 1 hour 41 min. The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse— who can understand it? Jeremiah 17.9 2013 Fox Searchlight Pictures Danny Boyle’s film noir leaves the audience with even more ambiguous feelings than usual. This genre features characters whose …
Rated R. Our ratings: V -8; L -7; S/N -.2 Running time: 1 hour 25 min. They sit in ambush in the villages; in hiding-places they murder the innocent. Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless; they lurk in secret like a lion in its covert; they lurk that they may seize the poor; they …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-1; L-3; S/N-5. Running time: 1 hour 59 min. Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help. Again, if two …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V -3; L -5; S/N -2. Running time: 1 hour 40 min. Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. It is better to be of a lowly spirit among the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud. Proverbs 16:18-19 He called a child, whom he …
A stone Age family overcomes its fear of the new when change forces it to leave its cave and a newcomer brings fire.
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V -3; L -5; S/N -2. Running time: 1 hour 51 min. “…and lead us not into temptation…” Matthew 6:13a Tyler Perry is writer and director of still another morality tale, but this one proves to be embarrassingly unsubtle. It reminds me of the ostensibly Biblical films of Cecil B. DeMille …
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Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V -3; L -5; S/N -2. Running time: 2 hours 6 min. Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord! Psalm 27.14 Although this sci-fi thriller takes place 60 years in the future when most of earth’s inhabitants have fled to one of …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V -0; L -3; S/N -1. Running time: 1 hour 31 min. Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well. Ecclesiastes 3.16 Documentarian Gregory Marquette’s film about a man cheated by the old …
Rated R. Our ratings: V-10, L-10, S/N 2. Length: 1 hour 53 min. You have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, ‘You shall not murder’;and ‘whoever murders shall be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable …