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Rated R. Our ratings: V -4; L -8; S/N -5. Running time: 1 hour 25 min. So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their …
Rated R. Our ratings: V -2; L -2; S/N -1. Running time: 2 hours 5 min. As for what others do, by the word of your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent. Psalm 17:4 The Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, saying, ‘Why do you eat and drink with …
Rated R. Our ratings: V -7; L -7; S/N -2. Running time: 2 hour 37 min Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands at a distance; for truth stumbles in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter. Isaiah 59:14 He said, ‘In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had …
Rated R. Our ratings: V -8; L -5; S/N -7. Running time: 2 hours 11 min. Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evildoers. Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on. For they cannot sleep unless they have done …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V -1; L -1; S/N -2. Running time: 1 hour 47 min. So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours, for we are members of one another. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and …
Rated R. Our ratings: V -3; L -5; S/N -5. Running time: 1 hour 41 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 …
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Although the Hebrew midwives were at the bottom of society in ancient Egypt, they were brave enough to exercise the one power that they did have, the power of saying “No” to Pharaoh’s murderous command. Chilean film director Pablo Larrain’s film claims that an advertising campaign concocted by the same pitchman who was selling a …
Rated R. Our ratings: V -9; L -8; S/N -3. Running time: 1 hour 50 min. Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of anger will fail. Proverbs 22.8 You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lies. Hosea 10:13 Do not be deceived; God is not …
Rated R. Our ratings: V -6; L -6; S/N -1. Running time: 1 hour 48 min. Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.* 4 The best of them is like a brier, the most upright …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V -5; L -;1 S/N -0. Running time: 1 hour 21 min. Deliver me from those who work evil; from the bloodthirsty save me. Psalm 59.2 New Yorker Chris Nicola descends into one of the Ukrainian caves where Jews hid.. 2012 Magnolia Pictures Janis Tobias’s documentary about a cave explorer and …