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Sorority sisters (most prominently Imogen Poots) are preyed on by hooded assailants who seem to be connected to a fraternity on campus.

Luminous, though deliberately paced, fact-based drama recounting the events leading up to the 1943 martyrdom of Austrian farmer Franz Jagerstatter (August Diehl). Motivated by his deep Catholic faith, Jagerstatter, who was beatified in 2007, refused to swear the oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler that was demanded of all those drafted into the Wehrmacht during World War II.

Relentlessly grating character study of a lowlife jewelry merchant (Adam Sandler) in New York's Diamond District as he juggles his wife (Idina Menzel), the employee who doubles as his mistress (Julia Fox), the basketball gambling addiction that has left him in debt to his loan shark brother-in-law (Eric Bogosian) and his fraught relationship with hoops star Kevin Garnett (playing himself).

Four years after their parents were killed in a car accident, a formerly free-spirited teen girl (Anya Taylor-Joy) and her fun-loving younger brother (Gabriel Bateman) are at odds because of her overprotectiveness. But after they're magically transported to a world inhabited by the titular line of toys, and he is kidnapped, she embarks on a quest to rescue him.

Playful gender-bending within the context of a video-game alternate universe mingles with an unexpectedly somber message about approaching death in this follow-up to the 2017 original.

Fact-based drama about poisoned water, similar to 2000's "Erin Brockovich," has a single crusading lawyer (Mark Ruffalo) taking on a powerful company — in this case, DuPont — that's been dumping industrial waste from the manufacture of Teflon around Parkersburg, West Virginia, the loyal company town where the coating is made.

Polish filmmaker Michal Kondrat's docudrama tells the story of the birth and growth of the devotion to Divine Mercy that originated with the visions of Jesus (Bartosz Ziemniak) experienced in the 1930s by St. Faustina Kowalska (Kamila Kaminska).

Volatile drama examining the alienation between the police and the African American community. Driving home from a first date, a couple of new acquaintances (Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith) are stopped and harassed by a white officer (Sturgill Simpson). As the situation escalates, the cop wounds the young woman and is, in turn, shot dead by the young man. In a panic, the duo flees from Ohio to New Orleans.

Splendid comic whodunit in which a shrewd Southern detective (Daniel Craig) is hired by an anonymous client to investigate the death of a famous and wealthy crime novelist (Christopher Plummer). Though the police lieutenant (LaKeith Stanfield) and trooper (Noah Segan) assigned to the case insist it was suicide, the sleuth seeks answers among the eccentric members of the deceased's conflict-ridden family (Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson and Toni Collette, among others).

 In Rome to cover the ad limina visit of the bishops from Region 4, Ann M. Augherton, Catholic Herald managing editor, also covered Pope Francis’ Dec. 4 general audience and the lighting of the Vatican Christmas tree and Nativity scene Dec. 5 as well as some other images of her trip. 

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