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Jul 05, 2020
A longstanding dispute between film distributors and associations that show outdoor films for free comes to a head as the industry reels from a post-coronavirus downturn.
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Jul 05, 2020
This 1992 animated movie about Black children running into trouble at a theme park is meant to be a comedy. But for one viewer, it no longer seems so funny.
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Jul 04, 2020
Since their time in the Broadway show, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr. and company have gone on to movies, TV and theater.
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Jul 03, 2020
Disney is streaming a live-capture film of "Hamilton." It's just the latest chapter in a deepening relationship between the company and the musical's creator.
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Jul 03, 2020
I witnessed the making of "The Outpost," a film about the day my unit fought off 300 Taliban fighters who tried to overrun our camp in Afghanistan.
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Jul 02, 2020
Our critics and readers make a return trip to the movie that kicked off a franchise. Does the blockbuster hold up in a summer without one?
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Jul 02, 2020
Critically panned, the steamy Polish flick is a streaming success thanks to TikTok teenagers and curious fans. But there's also a growing backlash from those who say it glorifies rape culture.
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Jul 02, 2020
Following his Palme d'Or-winning "Shoplifters," the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda visits some of the glories of France.
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Jul 02, 2020
Our culture writers offer suggestions for celebrating Independence Day, and what to watch or listen to without leaving your home.
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Jul 02, 2020
U. S. soldiers in Afghanistan fight to defend themselves against the Taliban in this fact-based war drama from Rod Lurie.
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Jul 02, 2020
Ulrich Köhler's first film, newly available in the U.S., is a secretive and beautifully observant study of teenage disaffection.
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Jul 02, 2020
Drive-ins are a rarity these days, but they were a formative moviegoing experience for many Americans, including an impressionable young boy who went on to become a director.
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Jul 02, 2020
This hybrid work of fiction and documentary begins with a creepy feeling that is eventually replaced by an empathetic fascination.
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Jul 02, 2020
A pair of documentaries serve as an introduction to Hu Jie, a documentarian whose films memorialize the horrors of the Mao era.
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Jul 02, 2020
A profile of the civil rights leader and longtime Georgia congressman has an urgent message.
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Jul 02, 2020
A film about persecuted gay and lesbian Chechens uses digital manipulation to guard their identities without losing their humanity. The step raises familiar questions about nonfiction movies.
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Jul 02, 2020
The new film starring Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams lovingly references many of the competition's most memorable moments, and features many Eurovision stars.
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Jul 02, 2020
How do you write about Hollywood's most self-referential screenwriter at a destabilizing moment in history? It takes more than one draft.
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Jul 01, 2020
This moving documentary profiles a singer who has become an influential activist in Hong Kong.
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Jul 01, 2020
After four months of livestream stand-up sets, the format remains awkward. But comics are getting better at playing to the camera, and crowds are learning how to show their appreciation.
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Jul 01, 2020
This documentary turns a tender eye toward a bright teenager who hopes to never leave her decaying Scottish hometown.
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Jul 01, 2020
A film about persecuted gays and lesbians in Chechnya uses digital manipulation to guard their identities without losing their humanity. The step raises familiar questions about nonfiction movies.
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Jul 01, 2020
Hot pursuits are a staple of summer blockbusters — remember them? — so we asked the director Justin Lin to break down five of our favorites.
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Jul 01, 2020
A real-world catastrophe has forced us to hit pause on enjoying the spectacle of our own domination. Maybe that's a good thing.
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Jul 01, 2020
In 1975, this thriller freaked out the world, scaring us out of the water and creating the summer-blockbuster template. It was also a warning.
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Jul 01, 2020
The director of "F9" and other "Fast & Furious" films narrates a look at some of cinema's coolest chases sequences.
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Jul 01, 2020
As a kid, I identified with Garth Algar, the shy sidekick of the 1992 movie, who taught me about how to be a real person in a branded world.
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Jul 01, 2020
Movie theaters are still closed. But your TV abides. Check out these movies before they leave, some as soon as the holiday weekend.
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Jul 01, 2020
Dakota Fanning plays a young woman who attaches herself to a pouty punk group in this drama from Gerardo Naranjo.
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Jun 30, 2020
Remembered for his adaptations of "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" and "The Great Santini," he prided himself on knowing his characters inside and out.
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Jun 30, 2020
The City Council approved a budget last week that reduced citywide arts funding to $5.84 million, a cut of 40 percent.
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Jun 30, 2020
The number of Oscar voters of color has tripled in the last four years, while the number of women has doubled. Still, the group skews heavily white and male.
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Jun 30, 2020
David France's documentary follows a group of courageous Russian activists working to rescue victims of an anti-L.G.B.T.Q. crackdown.
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Jun 30, 2020
Reiner, the creator of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and director of acclaimed comedies with Steve Martin and others, excelled at spotlighting the unique comic gifts of his collaborators.
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Jun 30, 2020
In a world upended by a pandemic, the antics of a catastrophe-prone teenage princess reassure me.
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Jun 30, 2020
Ava DuVernay, Stanley Nelson, Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis have all made movies that help explain our nation's current efforts to face hundreds of years of inequity. Here's what they said.
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Jun 30, 2020
The filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's founding-father Broadway musical arrives just in time — vital and more challenging than ever.
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Jun 30, 2020
Reiner, the creator of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and director of acclaimed comedies with Steve Martin and others, excelled at spotlighting the unique comic gifts of his collaborators.
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Jun 30, 2020
After composing and arranging for big bands, he gave the world melodies like "The Shadow of Your Smile," "Emily" and "Suicide Is Painless."
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Jun 30, 2020
In this moment of polarization and racial justice, our critic looks back at Michael Moore's smash documentary about the Iraq war and ‘The Notebook.'
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Jun 30, 2020
Andy de Emmony directs this by-the-book adaptation of a children's novel about a magical creature that can grant wishes.
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Jun 30, 2020
Mr. Reiner was a gifted comic actor, but he spent most of his career slightly out of the spotlight — writing, directing and letting others get the laughs.
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Jun 30, 2020
Daniel Myrick's mock documentary about a man's belief in extraterrestrial contact is a subdued and touching outsider portrait.
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Jun 29, 2020
Ms. Sherwell led an artistic existence in bohemian New York, appearing in plays, movies and cabaret. She has died of the coronavirus.
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Jun 29, 2020
In response to the pandemic as well as a desire for more racial and socioeconomic diversity, the Utah event will simultaneously take place in cinemas around North America.
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Jun 29, 2020
A documentary on L.G.B.T.Q. refugees becomes progressively engaging as its subjects' paths diverge.
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Jun 29, 2020
The actor's novel, "Memoirs and Misinformation," written with Dana Vachon, uses details from Carrey's life and career to tell a fictional tale of apocalypse and rebirth in Hollywood.
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Jun 28, 2020
His novel was turned into an era-defining movie and made him a lot of money. But he was never comfortable with its success, and he chose to live in poverty.
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Jun 28, 2020
The work of Hu Jie, who has made more than 30 movies, is little known even in China. The release of "Spark" and "The Observer" should make him better known abroad.
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Jun 26, 2020
Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams play Icelandic singing hopefuls in this over-egged musical comedy.
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Jun 25, 2020
The documentary style is eye-opening as it tests the boundaries of nonfiction filmmaking. Try "Crisis" and "Salesman" to start.
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Jun 25, 2020
The documentary style is eye-opening even as it tests the boundaries of nonfiction filmmaking. Try "Crisis" and "Salesman" to start.
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Jun 25, 2020
Jon Stewart's new political satire, which presents a homespun cliché of Middle America, is a lecture on old news.
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Jun 25, 2020
Sherry Hormann's new film dramatizes a 2005 "honor killing" in Berlin, using a fictionalized version of the woman who died as narrator.
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Jun 25, 2020
Does Steven Spielberg's 1993 blockbuster, with its ravenous dinosaurs and scientist heroes, still satisfy our hunger for action?
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Jun 25, 2020
Shola Amoo's film is a visually compelling coming-of-age narrative that explores the definition of family.
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Jun 25, 2020
There is now a video intro discussing the film's much-criticized depictions of the South and slavery, and a panel discussion examining those issues further.
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Jun 25, 2020
Dave Bautista bumbles as a C.I.A. field agent, and has a 9-year-old help him along the way.
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Jun 25, 2020
Set in Scotland in 1994, the film tells a tender, moody story of friendship.
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Jun 25, 2020
The director Christopher Munch's first feature since 2011 is both whimsical and dark.
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Jun 25, 2020
This new documentary is assembled from voluminous footage shot by Shannon Hoon, the lead singer of Blind Melon, until the day he died.
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Jun 25, 2020
This documentary from Leslie Woodhead gives the first lady of song a dry, PBS-ready treatment.
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Jun 25, 2020
She's not happy, and her student isn't laughing, either. Nina Hoss is impeccable in this film by Ina Weisse.
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Jun 25, 2020
The film, a live capture of the hit Broadway show, will stream on Disney Plus beginning July 3. That wasn't always the plan.
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Jun 24, 2020
In this delicate movie, a teenage girl in Seoul tries to find a sense of self amid calamities small and large.
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Jun 24, 2020
The event, an important stop on the path to Oscars, plans a pared-down slate with socially distanced showings in September.
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Jun 24, 2020
Black soldiers finally get their own story, but in one important respect, the film is no different from other Hollywood dramas that came before.
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Jun 24, 2020
Three of the attacks occurred at the same bar in West Hollywood, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said.
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Jun 24, 2020
"Mädchen in Uniform," a classic account of forbidden love in a girl's boarding school, is both an expression of anti-fascism and a lesbian coming-out story.
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Jun 24, 2020
Tired of searching for good movies to stream and looking for something off the beaten path? We did the work for you.
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Jun 24, 2020
Gaspar Antillo makes a narrative strategy out of withheld information, abrupt elisions and possible fantasy sequences in his debut feature.
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Jun 24, 2020
A new documentary from Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk delves into the years of ignored sexual abuse of girls and young women by the Olympic doctor Larry Nassar.
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Jun 23, 2020
An heir to a New York real estate fortune, he was involved in a number of popular films. A police official said he had jumped from a high-rise balcony.
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Jun 23, 2020
Schumacher's flash and style may well have rescued the franchise. (And then, two years later, nearly sunk it.)
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Jun 23, 2020
This documentary tells the mesmerizing story of a horrendous film shoot and the psychological flotsam left in its wake.
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Jun 22, 2020
Mr. Guillod, a former talent manager and an executive producer of the film "Atomic Blonde," was charged with 11 felony counts including rape.
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Jun 22, 2020
Mr. Guillod, a former talent manager and an executive producer of the film "Atomic Blonde," was charged with 11 felony counts including rape, his lawyer said.
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Jun 22, 2020
That and his other movies, including "The Lost Boys" and "Batman & Robin," were cinematic mileposts of the 1980s and '90s.
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Jun 22, 2020
This tight French Netflix thriller reminds us how deeply satisfying action can be when you strip it of Hollywood flab.
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Jun 22, 2020
The awards show will be held on Feb. 28, a date the Academy Awards abandoned last week because Hollywood has largely been halted by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Jun 21, 2020
How lessons from the director's films prepared one moviegoer for a terrifying encounter with the police.
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Jun 21, 2020
With the release of "7500" on Amazon Prime Video, here's a look at a handful of films that create dramatic tension in one space (or outer space).
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Jun 19, 2020
A letter signed by hundreds of artists, writers, film producers and directors, actors and singers demanded that institutions be "active agents" in fighting racism.
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Jun 19, 2020
In his relatively short career, Rajput rose to leading man. Here are some of his best performances.
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Jun 19, 2020
A character actor who eventually took leading roles, Mr. Holm had a range that went from the sweet-tempered to the psychotic.
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Jun 19, 2020
Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried play parents taking a much-needed break in Wales, only to find their vacation home isn't what it seems.
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Jun 19, 2020
We asked transgender performers and writers about the depictions that made an impact on them. Their answers were complicated.
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Jun 19, 2020
Moni Yakim has taught movement at Juilliard since 1968. A new film captures his impact on scores of actors. "He's not a coddler," says Jessica Chastain.
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Jun 19, 2020
The actress is back in a starring role after an ordeal on the Fox drama that began with a serious illness.
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Jun 19, 2020
A prickly professional dancer becomes a reluctant instructor for a preteen dance troupe in this formulaic dramedy.
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Jun 19, 2020
A Netflix documentary features interviews with Jen Richards, Laverne Cox and others in its look back through the decades at the representation of transgender people on screens.
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Jun 18, 2020
Spike Lee narrates a sequence from his film about African-American soldiers in the Vietnam War.
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Jun 18, 2020
Spike Lee narrates a sequence from his Netflix feature.
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Jun 18, 2020
In a long career with both DC and Marvel, Mr. O'Neil became best known for writing superhero comics that addressed social issues.
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Jun 18, 2020
Appointment viewing is back. Find out what online events to look for in coming days, and when to tune in.
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Jun 18, 2020
Our culture writers offer suggestions for what to watch or listen to, and how to celebrate Juneteenth.
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Jun 18, 2020
The improv center that influenced Tina Fey and Amy Poehler struggled to pay property taxes in the shutdown. It also faced demands that it be more inclusive.
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Jun 18, 2020
Eliza Scanlen plays a seriously ill high schooler who falls for the wrong guy who turns out to have the right stuff, after all.
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Jun 18, 2020
In Agnieszka Holland's historically informed drama, a Welsh journalist travels to 1933 Ukraine, then in the grip of famine.
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Jun 18, 2020
Olivier Assayas has created his most mainstream film yet, a spy story replete with double-crosses and romance.
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