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The Search
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"The Search" is a place for those looking to go deeper in their search for truth in art and culture today. This blog features regular posts, reviews, and essays on topics from film to religion, politics to pop music.
Recent Posts
Spend Your Thanksgiving With The Road
Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday. It’s a day when we celebrate the bounty of what we have, with family and friends, turkey and football. But in the midst of the gluttony and laziness and consumerism (black Friday!) of the weekend, it’...
Top 100 Films of the 2000s: 75-51
The countdown continues! For 100-76, click here. 75) Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005): This highly plotted, thoroughly British morality play is the film that reminded everyone that Woody Allen’s best filmmaking days might not be behind him after al...
Top 100 Films of the 2000s: 100-76
As 2009 winds down, listmaking winds up. Not just for the year, but for the DECADE. I’ve already made my list of the decade’s best albums, but now it is time to evaluate the best in my personal favorite media form: Movies. I spent weeks compilin...
The Last Station
A film about the final days of Russian author Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace, Anna Karenina) may sound like a bore to the average moviegoer, and indeed, The Last Station is admittedly a very bookish, Merchant Ivory sort of film. But it’s also utterly ...
Thanksgiving
Why do I always forget how blessed and lucky I am? Why do I always have a hard time recognizing the many things I should be thankful for? How every little thing in my life—both easy and hard, painful and pleasurable—has been orchestrated by God ...
Precious
I really wanted to like Precious. Everyone is talking about it this awards season as the movie to beat. It’s been a festival favorite. Oprah produced it, etc… And it is definitely a good film. But it’s certainly nothing like “the movie of th...

