Max is a major gifts officer at WORLD and a graduate of the World Journalism Institute. He lives in Savannah, Ga., with his wife and four children.
Seventy years after Cecil B. DeMille brought The Ten Commandments to the big screen, WORLD’s Max Belz revisits its scale, style, and ingenious effects.
Fifty years after All the President’s Men made phone calls, notebooks, and reluctant sources feel like a thriller, WORLD’s Max Belz revisits the classic Watergate film.
A 40-year-old film still speaks to a culture struggling to define manhood. WORLD’s Max Belz reviews the classic Stand By Me.
Francis Ford Coppola’s gangster saga turned family loyalty, violence, and cultural change into one of Hollywood’s defining films. WORLD’s Max Belz examines The Godfather’s enduring legacy for The WORLD History Book
WORLD film reviewer Max Belz on Hamnet, an Oscar contender that explores love, loss, creativity, and the imagined grief behind the Bard’s greatest tragedy
WORLD reviewer Max Belz on how film noir’s shadows, structure, and storytelling expose the moral struggle of the human heart
Max Belz reviews two classic movies that explore the human desire to be known
MOVIE | Loving in a time of extremism
Jaws turned a small-town thriller into a global phenomenon
MOVIE | A bleak interpretation of who we were during the pandemic
