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Challenging drama, set in the early 1950s, in which a young Jewish man (Logan Lerman) wins a scholarship to an elite college where he forms an unusual bond with an emotionally troubled fellow student (Sarah Gadon) and butts heads with the school’s traditionally minded dean (Tracy Letts). While writer-director James Schamus’ adaptation of Philip Roth’s […]
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Matt Damon returns in the fifth big-screen outing for the memory-damaged and monosyllabic government agent who first appeared in the novels of Robert Ludlum. Director Robert Greengrass, who co-scripted with Christopher Rouse, bookends the story with extended car and motorcycle chases, with the result that vehicle casualties considerably outnumber the body count from weapons. Although […]
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By Soren Johnson
A friend and I jog regularly through Arlington, recently named “America’s most walkable suburb” and the “best place to live” in the country. And yet, in this supposed paragon community: nobody is looking up. On a recent jog, we passed 55 people walking or jogging in the opposite direction. I greeted them each with […]
Columnists
By Soren Johnson
A friend and I jog regularly through Arlington, recently named “America’s most walkable suburb” and the “best place to live” in the country. And yet, in this supposed paragon community: nobody is looking up. On a recent jog, we passed 55 people walking or jogging in the opposite direction. I greeted them each with eye […]
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This teen-geared drama starts with an intriguing premise: an online game in which viewers pay to watch players fulfill real-life dares in exchange for significant sums of money. Yet, as a straitlaced New York City high school senior (Emma Roberts) tries to shake her reputation for conformity by participating, directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman’s […]
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The formidable Kevin Spacey wanders through this wreck of a comedy playing a callous business tycoon who learns important life lessons when he’s forced, temporarily, to inhabit the body of a cat. This transformation, brought about in fulfillment of some dark hints about the mogul’s future made by the vaguely mysterious pet shop owner (Christopher […]
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By Elizabeth Elliott
More than 6,000 Scouts descended on Goshen Scout Reservation near Lake Merriweather to earn merit badges, explore nature and cultivate friendships. They also learned about faith thanks to Father Augustine Minh Hai Tran, Scouting chaplain for the Arlington Diocese. Father Tran, a parochial vicar at St. James Church in Falls Church, has been serving as […]
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By Catholic News Service
Simone Biles won the women’s Olympic all-around gold medal Aug. 11. Her teammate Aly Raisman finished second. RIO DI JANEIRO – U.S. Olympic gymnast and gold medalist Simone Biles says when she travels, she sometimes takes with her a statue of St. Sebastian, the patron saint of athletes, and she also carries a rosary her […]
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The 13th big-screen outing for the sci-fi franchise that began as a TV series in the 1960s is, overall, a rousing and rambunctious 3-D adventure. Capt. James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) of the Starship Enterprise and his crew (including Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and Karl Urban) respond to a distress call in a remote part […]
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