From 'Ten Commandments' to 'Uncut Gems,' here are 12 great movies for Passover and Easter
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Apr 10, 2020
4 minutes
It's not uncommon for some of us to describe a great, genuinely transcendent movie as a religious experience. We like to exalt the sublimity of the moving image, sacralizing what is too often regarded as a godless, sometimes profane medium. We make our dutiful pilgrimages to this Robert Bresson retrospective or that repertory house blessed with a 35-millimeter print of "Andrei Rublev," and we return home in a state of grace, even rapture - a feeling that can be expressed in silence or in gushing, free-flowing conversation.
You needn't be a believer in anything but the greatness of cinema to be so moved and transported. But for those of us who do attend churches, synagogues, mosques and
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