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Brett McCracken

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Brett McCracken is a senior editor for The Gospel Coalition, where he writes about art, culture, faith, and theology. He has also been a regular film critic for Christianity Today and has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, CNN.com, and others. Find Brett @BrettMcCracken.

Reviews

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Omaha (2025) 91% EDIT “Throughout Omaha, and even as it nears a wrenching climax, there’s a sense of hope and future.” – The Gospel Coalition May 7, 2026 Full Review Michael (2026) 39% EDIT “Unflinching truth is rarely as lucrative as a flashy, feel-good puff piece, which is what Michael is.” – The Gospel Coalition May 6, 2026 Full Review The Story of Everything (2026) EDIT “The Story of Everything makes a powerful case for the mounting scientific evidence that an intelligent first cause—something outside space and time—created the universe.” – The Gospel Coalition Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 81% EDIT “If AI induces the apocalypse, the film suggests, it’ll be a natural result of society’s decades-long complicity in "scrolling ourselves to death" tech addiction. ” – The Gospel Coalition Mar 28, 2026 Full Review The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) 90% EDIT “The extreme possibilities make for dizzying, sometimes mind-melting viewing. And while it’s short on answers, the documentary captures the topic’s bigness and extremely high stakes—however things turn out.” – The Gospel Coalition Mar 28, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% EDIT “It’s an instant sci-fi classic. Funny, moving, awe-inspiring, thrilling.” – The Gospel Coalition Mar 16, 2026 Full Review Rebuilding (2025) 91% EDIT “One of the most redemptive movies I’ve seen this year. ” – The Gospel Coalition Feb 6, 2026 Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% EDIT “It’s intense but rewarding, full of constantly surprising turns, unexpected moments of grace, and a final 10 minutes that will leave you breathless as Panâhi’s quietly potent point comes into clearer view.” – The Gospel Coalition Feb 6, 2026 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% EDIT “Everything in The Mastermind—including its sepia palette and slow, long-take pace—is meant to convey the malaise and stagnation of the 1970s in contrast to the flower-power idealism of the 1960s.” – The Gospel Coalition Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 95% EDIT “Without delving into Hallmark-style sentimentality, Sentimental Value captures the unique pain a father can inflict on his children—but also the profound opportunity he has to facilitate reconciliation and healing before it’s too late.” – The Gospel Coalition Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Souleymane's Story (2024) 100% EDIT “Lojkine’s film doesn’t delve into the politics of immigration or asylum programs. It simply asks us to observe one immigrant’s story and sit in his vulnerable shoes for 90 minutes.” – The Gospel Coalition Feb 6, 2026 Full Review The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) 97% EDIT “I miss movies like this: relatively clean, good-hearted romantic comedies that know how to make audiences both laugh and cry. ” – The Gospel Coalition Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Solo Mio (2026) 82% EDIT “In a genre desperately needing a reset, Solo Mio is an enjoyable offering that manages to feel both family-friendly and "grown up."” – The Gospel Coalition Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “As Blanc probes the guilt or innocence of murder suspects, Johnson is also weighing the merits of different expressions of Christianity. The picture that emerges isn’t entirely surprising.” – The Gospel Coalition Dec 17, 2025 Full Review David (2025) 79% EDIT “Certainly the best Bible-themed animated musical since DreamWorks’s Prince of Egypt (1998), and arguably more biblically faithful and artistically rich.” – The Gospel Coalition Dec 9, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 94% EDIT “It’s one life as a lens to contemplate the cosmos. The universe in a Grainier of sand.” – The Gospel Coalition Nov 21, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Del Toro’s adaptation wisely foregrounds the story’s technological critique, which feels especially urgent.” – The Gospel Coalition Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Nuremberg (2025) 71% EDIT “Films like Nuremberg remind us that in the moment, evil can take a surreptitious shape—especially when it’s reinforced in society-wide patterns of confirmation bias.” – The Gospel Coalition Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “Roofman’s ending is redemptive and cathartic, but also a gut-punch. ” – The Gospel Coalition Oct 29, 2025 Full Review The Lost Bus (2025) 88% EDIT “Like much of Greengrass’s other work (United 93, Captain Phillips), the movie is a heart-pounding, white-knuckle survival thriller. But it’s also a story about fatherhood.” – The Gospel Coalition Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Light of the World (2025) 80% EDIT “If you have kids, take them to see The Light of the World. It’s a worthy and edifying cinematic experience—especially compared to the alternatives in pop culture today.” – The Gospel Coalition Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Superman (2025) 83% EDIT “After decades of comic-book universes with ever more diminishing returns (both artistically and commercially), superhero fatigue is real. Audiences are ready for a factory reset. This movie gives it to them.” – The Gospel Coalition Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 78% EDIT “The refreshing message that comes through [in Materialists] is that marriage, however hard, is absolutely worth the arduous work of dating. And that’s probably a message today’s marriage-leery, anxious generation needs to hear.” – The Gospel Coalition Jun 28, 2025 Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% EDIT “It feels more like a relic of the aughts heyday of New Atheism than a product of the present vibe shift.” – The Gospel Coalition Jun 6, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% EDIT “While often insightful about the way we’re tempted and how evil can be naively trifled with, Coogler’s movie doesn’t have a robust view of indwelling sin and moral culpability. ” – The Gospel Coalition May 10, 2025 Full Review
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