CV NEWS FEED // The three Catholic men behind an online movie review project recently released their “Official List of 100 Catholic Movies Every Catholic Should See.”
Sam Morales, Joe Wilson, and Cameron DeLaFleur run the 100 Catholic Movies project, a website that offers film criticism and media recommendations from a Catholic perspective.
The Official List of 100 Movies Every Catholic Should See was released Feb. 28, and it was compiled over two years.
“The goal of our project since the beginning has been to educate people on the Catholic aspects of the art of cinema,” the authors explained.
They added that cinema is often seen as a second-tier art form, and their list highlights films that go above and beyond that stereotype.
“Film can be an exceptionally powerful medium,” their article states, “at its best combining the visual beauty of painting or photography with the moral power of drama and the emotional force of music to create an experience which can move the human heart like no other.”
Thus, they argue, filmmaking and discussing film is an essential part of modern evangelization.
Some of the films on the list explicitly deal with themes of faith and Catholicism, but many of them do not.
For example, the list includes the well-loved Batman film The Dark Knight.
“This examination of the central philosophy at the heart of the film — that men can and should stand strong in the face of evil — only scratches the surface of everything at play,” the film’s review states, adding later that these deep themes are “part of the reason why The Dark Knight still endures to this day.”
The authors reflected on how each of the films reveals truth, whether or not they explicitly deal with themes of faith.
“These films show us universal truths about humanity in other ways,” the authors state. “Each film was chosen because they can tell us something about goodness, truth, beauty, virtue and vice, belief and unbelief, dignity and love.”
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