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"Conclave" & "We Live in Time"

From left: Ralph Fiennes in Conclave (2024); Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh in We Live in Time (2024).
From left: Ralph Fiennes in Conclave (2024); Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh in We Live in Time (2024).

Time, Einstein told us, is relative. And that’s a perspective that most of us bear in mind as each hour, each minute and even each second passes by. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of movies in which time, and reactions to its passing, play a large role. The movies are the religious suspense study Conclave and the aptly titled love story We Live in Time.

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  • “We Live in Time” is a heartrending, emotion-laced version of the romance-movie genre, Dan Webster says in his review.
  • A procedural thriller that also examines faith, organized religion and the current state of world politics, “Conclave” has a lot going on. But Nathan Weinbender says it’s also a surprisingly provocative and thoughtful film with plenty of pulpy twists and turns.