Arts & Culture

“Batman and Harley Quinn” (Warner Bros.) is a poorly conceived and morally obtuse straight-to-video animated film from DC Comics.

If you think your trip back and forth to work is trying, consider the plight Liam Neeson finds himself in as “The Commuter” (Lionsgate).

Elizabeth Berg has written many popular novels, but her new novel, “The Story of Arthur Truluv,” is a gem and features three characters who are struggling to deal with the loss of someone dear to them.

A panel discussion last year on the challenges faced by refugees didn’t sit well with a freshman at the Jesuit-run College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Once again based on the series of books by recently deceased author Michael Bond, to whom the film is dedicated, the proceedings initially find Paddington far from his roots in the Peruvian jungle, having settled into a cozy domestic life with the Browns, the very British human family that adopted him in the first screen outing.

The oddest scenes in “The Post” (Fox), a nostalgic account of The Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, involve Meryl Streep as that newspaper’s owner, Katharine Graham, hovering about its press and linotype rooms.

The “God Calls” app was commissioned by the National Office for Vocation of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales as a “spiritual toolkit” to help users deepen their faith and discover their vocations.

Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, writes an essay on Pope Francis and prayer for the book, “A Pope Francis Lexicon.”