https://staging2.theplaylist.net/pilgrimage-is-a-john-wick-style-rising-death-toll-action-flick-review-20170818/ Sat, 19 Aug 2017 04:25:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/pilgrimage-is-a-john-wick-style-rising-death-toll-action-flick-review-20170818/#comment-155390 Fri, 18 Aug 2017 23:34:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.net/?p=371321#comment-155390 Films about religion are tricky to make, sure, but let’s be honest: even when films about religion are, mirabile dictu, well made, most critics don’t actually know how to engage with theology. Silence, which you cite, got more talk from about colonialism (which, admittedly, was an undercurrent in the film), and at best only generic engagement with the theology, and some critics, like at The Playlist, explicitly balked at the religious concerns of the film. So let’s not get too preachy here.

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