It’s an idea-driven science fiction movie that respects the audience’s intelligence. Science itself is at the core of the ...

Oliver is an Artful Dodger, taking Caroline under his wing, teaching her the ropes. She tries lifting his wallet. She ...

Set over the span of a single year, Hafsia Herzi’s “The Little Sister” navigates through the potent queer awakening of its ...

It’s a film that changes every time you, the viewer, lose the chance to be fully present for someone you love.

There’s a lot of “artifice” in Lina’s world: in fact, an entire life can be constructed only from artifice. The void, however, will not be filled; wealth and accomplishments cannot stave off the ...

She wisely knew that people might be more likely to adjust to her wavelength by grounding the film in specific stories. The subject in question is Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason, as he documents ...

We’ve had three adaptations of John D. MacDonald’s 1957 novel The Executioners—two films and now an Apple TV series, all titled “Cape Fear.” You’d be hard-pressed to find a more impressive trio than ...

Forty-three years ago, there was a hit film called “Mr. Mom.” It’s about a laid-off auto worker (Michael Keaton) who swaps roles with his homemaker wife (Teri Garr) so she can re-enter her former ...

Perhaps we should make a distinction between Westerns and cowboy movies, one we can use when a film like “Will Penny” comes along. This isn’t a Western; it’s slung too close to the ground for that.

Let’s face it: We’re all Barbie girls, living in a post-“Barbie” world. In the wake of the massive success of Greta Gerwig’s droll deconstruction of the doll, Mattel quickly greenlit movies on just ...

In 1971, Mexico mobilized a grassroots campaign to skirt around dismay from FIFA in order to host the first-ever Women’s World Cup (outlined in James Erskine’s electrifying documentary “Copa 71”).

Otto Preminger’s “Hurry Sundown” is a frustrating case, not good but not particularly bad, with a smokescreen of controversy surrounding it and obscuring its real faults. The trouble with this film ...