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Small Things Like These
Portrait of a working-class man who demonstrates the difference between empathy and compassion.
An Unfinished Life
A sensitive treatment of the slow and often difficult process of forgiveness after years of hurt, anger, and disappointment.
Bad Education
A valentine to the film noir genre and its capacity to depict the strange things people will do to fulfill their forbidden yearnings.
Mystic River
A tense murder-mystery that finds director Clint Eastwood on familiar ground exploring themes of guilt and innocence, good and evil, and anger and revenge.
We Drink from Our Own Wells
An exploration of the challenges and the joys of those who are poor.
Battle in Heaven (Batalla En El Cielo)
Depicts the spiritual emergency of an amoral man in Mexico City who plunges into despair and turns to sex as a way out of his funk.
Stevie
A wrenching documentary by the filmmaker of Hoop Dreams about his complicated relationship with a troubled young man arrested for molesting an eight-year-old girl.
Spare the Child
Charts the dire effects of corporeal punishment on private and public life in America.
New Hearts
A litany for the ills perpetrated against animals, and the renewal of our hearts.
Reading the News
A helpful spiritual practice of reading the news and using it as a prayer list.