The saying goes that good things come in small packages, but Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino's masterful The Great Beauty shows that large and lavish sometimes work out well too. One of five movies ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Some movies come barreling out of their caves like armies on the sociocultural warpath, self-consciously defining themselves as psychographic events, marking The Way Things Are Now and becoming part ...

Almost exactly a year ago, I watched Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place, a film that stars Sean Penn as an aging and bored former rock star. What I saw in this movie was an unimpressive mess: A ...

Where there is life, there is death, but in The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza), co-written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo), the two states often exist side-by-sideliterally. In the ...