Arts & Culture

“A Radical Faith” is the story of Sister Maura Clarke’s journey from a tightknit Catholic community in the Rockaway area of New York City to the jungles of Nicaragua and El Salvador.

British scholar Simon Yarrow’s book, “The Saints: A Short History,” is a captivating study of saints and the saint-making process down through more than 2,000 years.

Rearranging some of the traditional elements of the Arthur legend — which may or may not be rooted in actual history — director and co-writer Guy Ritchie comes up with a sort of “Prince and the Pauper” version of events.

The MISSIO app is meant to reconnect Catholics with real people, real projects and real faces as well as get feedback from the religious running the mission.

There’s a kernel of goodness at the heart of the mother-daughter comedy “Snatched” (Fox).

“The Dinner” (The Orchard), a trenchant morality tale about the nature of evil and mankind’s savage underpinnings, turns out to be as infuriatingly dense and labyrinthine as Dutch author Herman Koch’s 2009 novel.

The story, “Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe,” told by Sarah Gristwood does justice to the lives and memories of the women who broke the European glass ceiling so many years ago.

Sound fundamental values underlie the spirited sci-fi follow-up “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” (Disney). But thematic elements demanding discernment, together with some less than family-friendly dialogue, make this return to the stars best for grown-ups.