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John Anderson is a television critic for The Wall Street Journal and a contributor to The New York Times.
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Arts & CultureTelevision
John Anderson
A new series on History approaches Jesus and his followers as humans rather than as stained-glass icons.
Arts & CultureBooks
John Anderson
Crosby was the most Catholic superstar the United States has ever seen.
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Who, exactly, was the fastidious, mustachioed Hercule Poirot?
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
“La Religieuse” has been assailed as an attack on the church itself. And by people who had not even seen the film.
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
“Vice” isn’t a dishonest movie, exactly. It just enables dishonesty.
Clockwise from top left: "The Favourite," "The Death of Stalin," "First Reformed and "Roma"
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
The best movies from this year were about family, both natural and improvised.
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Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
Nadine Labaki’s new film is set amid the supreme chaos of current-day Beirut.
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Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
The messages of “Mary” that can be applied to our own age are received early, and often.
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Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
There is a richness to “Roma” that will likely take multiple viewings to absorb. Every gesture is revealing; every image is a window.
 Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone in ‘The Favourite’ (© 2018 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)
Arts & CultureFilm
John Anderson
The short but contentious reign of Queen Anne serves as a study of unbridled ambition and ruthless power.