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Alternate Ending is about to celebrate its first Easter, and what better occasion for pick our Top 5 Religious movies? That covers a lot of territory, of course: from the devastatingly European solemnity of Ordet to the shrill preachifying of Left Behind. The “religious movie” genre includes multi-hour Bollywood epics, animated children’s musicals, upbeat middlebrow crowd-pleasers, and more extravagantly chintzy Italian and American epics of Life During Bible Times than you could shake a fiberglass sword at.

In addition, Rob share his thoughts on the 2016 blockbuster Suicide Squad, Carrie catches her book club book on the big screen with A Man Called Ove and Tim brings a Wisconsin Film Festival pick to the table with The Gold of Naples.

Rob

The Book of Eli
Dogma (1999)
Sister Act (1992)
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
What Dreams May Come (1998)

Carrie

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Spotlight (2015)
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Sister Act (1992)

Tim

Ordet (1955)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
The Tree of Life (2011)
Au hasard Balthazar (1966)