With The Lost Daughter, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal makes a brilliant debut as writer-director, and in the process, guides Olivia Colman (best known for The Crown...
Continuing her recent streak of daring, indelible performances, Kristen Stewart in Spencer is a woman on the verge of a breakdown. Or maybe she’s on the verge o...
As the fact-based film that bears his name begins, Joe Bell (Mark Wahlberg), a 45-year-old wood mill worker from La Grande, Oregon, is walking down an Idaho hig...
As The Human Voice – Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s glorious new 30-minute film – opens, an unnamed woman (Tilda Swinton) steps onto a soundstage wearing a...
You might well announce someday that you’re going to completely walk away from your life and from the larger world itself, but it won’t really be true until you...
If date night still existed and you and yours had gone to a proper cinema to see The Little Things – the new serial killer thriller starring Denzel Washington –...
It’s long been known that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI bugged Martin Luther King, Jr.'s phones, his home, and the many hotel rooms he stayed in during his nonsto...
When I saw actor-director Denzel Washington’s film of August Wilson’s play Fences in a Valley movie theater in December 2016, I shut my eyes for a time so that ...
When I was in grade school, in the 1970s, my teacher caught me reading the Bantam paperback of William Peter Blatty’s bestselling novel, The Exorcist. (I had sw...
“Potential has a shelf-life,” Margaret Atwood wrote in her novel Cat’s Eye, a brutal assessment writer-director-star Radha Blank disproves with élan in her wond...
