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About Steven D. Greydanus
Steven D. Greydanus is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, a permanent deacon in the Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, and the founder of DecentFilms.com. He has degrees in media arts and religious studies. He and his wife Suzanne have seven children.
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The Lourdes Effect: The Miracle Club director on Irish trauma and miracles

July 14, 2023 Steven D. Greydanus 25

From the trailer, you might get the impression that The Miracle Club—starring Laura Linney, Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates, and Stephen Rea—would make a good double feature with Waking Ned Devine. It looks, that is, like […]

Essay

Indiana Jones movies and Raiders of the Lost Ark: Why the original still stands alone

June 30, 2023 Steven D. Greydanus 20

I was 12 when Raiders of the Lost Ark opened in 1981, and it changed my relationship with movies. I was already an avid moviegoer; what’s more, between the first two films in the Star […]

The Dispatch

An Elemental misstep from Pixar

June 19, 2023 Steven D. Greydanus 14

The golden age of Pixar lasted a decade and a half, spanning ten films from Toy Story to Up. In those days the studio routinely knocked out masterpieces, and even the occasional lesser film (A […]

Features

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is an incomplete triumph

June 1, 2023 Steven D. Greydanus 76

“You’re like me.” That simple phrase, repeated a number of times in 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, is close to the film’s emotional center. Into the Spider-Verse is a layered movie brimming with ideas: It’s […]

Features

A deep dive: The Little Mermaid then and now

May 26, 2023 Steven D. Greydanus 173

There’s something profoundly melancholy about Disney returning, in its present state of creative exhaustion and corporate decadence, to The Little Mermaid—the nucleus from which the entire Disney renaissance exploded, in a way along with everything […]

Features

Emilio Estevez on the Camino drama—in theaters one day only—and the planned sequel

May 10, 2023 Steven D. Greydanus 20

The movie year 2011 was an extraordinary year in many respects, not least for notable religious themes on the big screen. Most memorably, the fact-based drama Of Gods and Men gave the world an indelible […]

Features

A Father’s Heart: Saint Joseph comes to theaters on May 1

April 28, 2023 Steven D. Greydanus 3

Everyone knows about Marian apparitions. Even in the minds of non-Catholics and nonbelievers, the names of Lourdes, Fátima, and Guadalupe are virtually synonymous with the Blessed Virgin Mary. Cotignac, in southeastern France, is a name […]

The Dispatch

Let us be attentive: Active participation in Mass

April 23, 2023 Steven D. Greydanus 16

Probably all of us have had the experience of finding ourselves halfway through a meal and realizing that we hadn’t been paying attention what we were eating: how it tasted, how it went down, or […]

Features

Take a Lenten pilgrimage to Santiago—at the movies

March 23, 2023 Steven D. Greydanus 6

• Get tickets to Santiago: The Camino Within Like many people, I first learned about the Camino de Santiago, or Way of St. James, from the 2011 movie The Way. The Camino is a network […]

The Dispatch

The spirit of Rocky lives on in the Creed trilogy

March 2, 2023 Steven D. Greydanus 44

Sports movies are among the most durable of genres, and nostalgia sequels and long-running franchises have become almost the norm for popular movies from the past half-century. But the legacy of Rocky is unique. Few […]

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