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Steven D. Greydanus

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Biography:

SDG has been writing about film since 2000, when he created Decent Films. SDG has contributed to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, and the T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film. For ten years he co-hosted the Gabriel Award–winning cable TV show “Reel Faith” for New Evangelization Television, and he has appeared frequently on Catholic radio. SDG is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and a deacon in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

Favorites:

Steven D. Greydanus' all-time favorites include The Big Sleep, Brooklyn, Drunken Master II, Fantasia, Into Great Silence, The Kid Brother, The Kid With a Bike, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Spirited Away, The Tree of Wooden Clogs and The Wrong Man.

Location:

New Jersey, 20 minutes outside Manhattan

Official Website:

https://decentfilms.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “Both a welcome departure and a gratifying return to form.… Knives Out turns on the heroine being a good and caring nurse; that Fr. Jud is a good and caring priest is even more important here.” – Decent Films Dec 13, 2025 Full Review Elio (2025) 83% EDIT “The kind of movie that Lightyear should have been… Where other recent Pixar releases have been distinctly adolescent coming-of-age stories, Elio is fantastical escapism for children.” – Decent Films Jun 19, 2025 Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% EDIT “Lovingly adapted from Stephen King’s novella of the same name, The Life of Chuck was written and directed by Mike Flanagan, for whom the material is so well suited that King might as well have written it for him.” – Decent Films Jun 6, 2025 Full Review The Wild Robot (2024) 97% EDIT “If it’s not a perfect movie, it’s the best kind of mostly perfect movie: the kind where the missteps, if they are missteps, don’t diminish the delight of the perfect parts.” – Decent Films Sep 28, 2024 Full Review Wildcat (2023) 59% EDIT “Brims with passion and integrity. I’m grateful that it exists.” – Decent Films May 10, 2024 Full Review Cabrini (2024) 90% EDIT “As single-minded as its protagonist, Cabrini drives home in every scene its themes of human dignity—particularly the dignity of women and marginalized groups including immigrants and the poor—and solidarity in the face of prejudice and social injustice.” – Decent Films Mar 21, 2024 Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% EDIT “Exceeds expectations in every way—except humanity.” – Decent Films Mar 4, 2024 Full Review Lourdes (2019) 100% EDIT “Demaizière and Teurlai are nonbelievers, but their observational method is respectful and open-minded.” – Decent Films Jul 15, 2023 Full Review Elemental (2023) 73% EDIT “When a significant part of the conflict in a cartoon about talking elemental beings turns on urban infrastructure problems, building code violations, and city bureaucracy, something has gone off the rails.” – Decent Films Jun 16, 2023 Full Review Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 95% EDIT “Full of the joy of discovery and the emotional generosity that is the soul of Into the Spider-Verse. It’s inventive, thrilling, funny, ridiculous, heartwarming, frenetic, and sad.” – Catholic World Report Jun 2, 2023 Full Review The Little Mermaid (2023) 67% EDIT “Suffers from the murky, underlit look common in Disney tentpoles. In underwater sequences the dimness ostensibly approximates realism, but the real function is to camouflage CGI quality issues. Too much fails at a basic level: It’s not worth looking at.” – Catholic World Report May 26, 2023 Full Review Creed III (2023) 89% EDIT “With his unnervingly nonchalant gaze and jaw jutting forward, Majors radiates hidden, explosive danger, and his formidably brawny physique makes an understatement of Dame’s boast to have kept in shape in prison.” – Catholic World Report Mar 3, 2023 Full Review Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) 76% EDIT “The scenes of Jake and Neytiri’s forest-dwelling family learning to adapt to marine life are full of a kind of joy that it seems Hollywood blockbusters have all but forgotten: that of seeing something unprecedented and wondrous. ” – Catholic World Report Dec 16, 2022 Full Review Thirteen Lives (2022) 85% EDIT “I’m glad I saw both films, though ‘The Rescue’ is by far the more essential, and ‘Thirteen Lives’ covers a lot of the same ground.” – Catholic World Report Jul 31, 2022 Full Review Lightyear (2022) 74% C- EDIT “If Lightyear is Andy’s Star Wars, what an impoverished childhood Andy had.” – Catholic World Report Jun 15, 2022 Full Review Jurassic World Dominion (2022) 29% C- EDIT “For a while it seems ‘Dominion’ wants to be the franchise’s ‘Mission: Impossible.’ Instead, it’s the anti–‘Top Gun: Maverick’.” – Catholic World Report Jun 11, 2022 Full Review Top Gun: Maverick (2022) 96% A- EDIT “More than a nostalgia sequel or legacyquel; it is almost more than a movie. It is a manifesto and a monument, a defiant time capsule and a swaggering IMAX spectacle without precedent or peer.” – Catholic World Report May 25, 2022 Full Review Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) 73% D+ EDIT “I’m thinking of a moment in the original movie in which Stephen looks skeptically at a deeply corrupted individual nattering about the greater good and retorts, “No. I mean, come on—look at your face.” Nobody says that in the sequel—but they should.” – Catholic World Report May 6, 2022 Full Review Petite Maman (2021) 97% EDIT “There's no place in a film like Petite Maman for world-bending sorcery or flux capacitors, but the elegant simplicity of what Sciamma does with an unexplained wrinkle in the fabric of reality speaks as eloquently to those longings as any film I've seen.” – Catholic World Report Apr 23, 2022 Full Review Father Stu (2022) 42% EDIT “Wahlberg compellingly inhabits his character's struggles, and the screenplay is decently structured even when it sometimes lacks persuasive depth or context.” – Catholic World Report Apr 14, 2022 Full Review The Godfather (1972) 97% EDIT “Now half a century old, Francis Ford Coppola's revered New Hollywood masterpiece has one of the best-known final shots in film history - but it almost had a much more Catholic ending.” – Catholic World Report Apr 8, 2022 Full Review Turning Red (2022) 95% EDIT “Switching up the familiar parental overbearing or understanding roles can have humanizing implications for both fathers and mothers. Moms, like dads, are only human, and dads are, in a different sense, no less human than moms.” – Decent Films Mar 11, 2022 Full Review Cyrano (2021) 85% A- EDIT “Dinklage swaggers and glowers magnificently and sings decently, but he's at his best in quiet, intimate moments, especially with Roxanne and with his confidante Le Bret, the only one who sees his pain.” – Catholic World Report Feb 24, 2022 Full Review Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) 93% B+ EDIT “Crossover comfort food with a redemptive twist.” – Catholic World Report Jan 7, 2022 Full Review The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) 93% A EDIT “Fog and mist, translucent pavilion sidewalls, blowing curtains, dark water, shadows, reflections: the film is full of motifs evoking the murkiness in which Macbeth's last days play out.” – Our Sunday Visitor Dec 13, 2021 Full Review
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