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Sep 22, 2021
A fertile creative force, he wrote fiction and musicals but is best known for a breakthrough movie that heralded the genre known as blaxploitation.
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Sep 22, 2021
Bill Morrison, the poet laureate of lost films, turns the story of footage found near Iceland into a history of a slice of Soviet cinema.
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Sep 22, 2021
He used to say he would be remembered more for his teaching than his ballets. The film "In Balanchine's Classroom" provides a glimpse of that.
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Sep 22, 2021
"Fauci," a new documentary, follows his work in two health crises: AIDS and the coronavirus pandemic. He agreed to participate as long as it didn't interfere with his work.
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Sep 22, 2021
From slasher musicals to water nymph dramas, we recommend a number of unusual films to breathe new life into your streaming routine.
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Sep 22, 2021
This domestic thriller from Netflix is painfully dumb and laughably obvious.
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Sep 22, 2021
In "The Many Saints of Newark," James Gandolfini's son takes on his father's iconic role. But knowing his dad hardly prepared him for the work ahead.
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Sep 21, 2021
At the center of the Algerian effort to throw off French rule, he re-created that role in Gillo Pontecorvo's searing 1966 movie, based on a book by Mr. Yacef.
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Sep 21, 2021
The two women are joining Zando, an independent publishing company founded last year that plans to work with authors and sell books in unconventional ways.
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Sep 21, 2021
The two women are joining Zando, an independent publishing company founded last year that plans to work with authors and sell books in unconventional ways.
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Sep 21, 2021
"That's my skill," said Bruna Papandrea, who teamed with Reese Witherspoon on hits like "Wild" and "Gone Girl." She now has her own company providing shows and movies to a number of streaming services.
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Sep 20, 2021
Mr. Johnson, whose other film credits include "House Party" and "Menace II Society," died on Sept. 6, his agent said.
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Sep 20, 2021
Some stars of the movie musical, like Ben Platt and Amy Adams, were ready and eager to sing. Others, like Julianne Moore, got there eventually.
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Sep 19, 2021
Notre critique évalue les chances et les attentes du film à l'approche de la saison des grands prix de cinéma. Aux USA, le film sort le mois prochain à la fois en salle et en streaming.
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Sep 17, 2021
With theaters at 50 percent capacity, our critic found herself somewhat isolated as she took in highlights like "The Tsugua Diaries" and "Hold Your Fire."
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Sep 17, 2021
The movie star may have his own ambitions of traveling to orbit one day.
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Sep 17, 2021
Despite its clichés, this musical about an aspiring teenage drag queen is a charmer.
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Sep 17, 2021
This month's picks include a home-sharing horror comedy, a slow-burn study of a nightmarish friendship and a love letter to scary drag queens.
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Sep 17, 2021
The director Michael Showalter narrates a sequence featuring the actress as Tammy Faye Bakker and Andrew Garfield as Jim Bakker.
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Sep 17, 2021
The director Michael Showalter narrates a scene from his film featuring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield.
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Sep 17, 2021
Look for would-be blockbusters ("Dune," "No Time to Die"), art-house hopefuls ("Spencer," "Flee") and everything in between ("The Many Saints of Newark").
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Sep 17, 2021
To transform the actress into the title televangelist of "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," it took a little faith and a lot of artists.
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Sep 17, 2021
A guide to the many mobsters of "The Many Saints of Newark" and how they prefigure the characters in the beloved series about New Jersey wiseguys.
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Sep 17, 2021
Marvel's first Asian superhero movie has yet to be released in the mainland amid fierce debate over its back story and star.
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Sep 16, 2021
Typecast from the outset, she was a star of movie musicals before she was out of her teens. But her big-screen career peaked when she was in her 20s.
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Sep 16, 2021
She taught Barbra Streisand, Penélope Cruz and countless other performers how to sound like someone else.
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Sep 16, 2021
In this Bruce LaBruce melodrama, two twins, both alike in indecency, fall in love.
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Sep 16, 2021
Former ballet dancers grasp at words to describe the genius of George Balanchine in this charming documentary.
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Sep 16, 2021
This sensitive documentary by the French filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz naturalistically explores the struggles of a 7-year-old transgender girl.
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Sep 16, 2021
Max Harwood, making his professional debut with the movie musical "Everybody's Talking About Jamie," has "this kind of magic about him."
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Sep 16, 2021
Tammy Faye Bakker gets the celebrity biopic treatment in a new movie starring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield.
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Sep 16, 2021
The pioneering legal thinker influenced Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But this documentary by the filmmakers behind "RBG" misses the mark.
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Sep 16, 2021
The hook of this documentary is the spectacle of a revolutionary government that can't abide the rebellion of rock without bureaucratic oversight.
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Sep 16, 2021
The story of how an obscure painting that was sold for $450 million at Christie's in 2017 is maybe too good not to tell twice.
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Sep 16, 2021
If the combination of Nicolas Cage and the director Sion Sono suggests a special kind of lunacy, this sunbaked samurai western more than delivers.
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Sep 16, 2021
The French actor-director Mélanie Laurent delivers a feminist melodrama about the abuses of a Paris hospital in the 19th century.
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Sep 16, 2021
This meta exercise, starring and written by St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein, proves its point by not having a point.
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Sep 16, 2021
In this latest work by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a Japanese couple's relationship is shaped by the forces of churning nationalism that surround it.
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Sep 16, 2021
In his latest film, Clint Eastwood drives across Mexico with a troubled young man and a combative rooster.
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Sep 16, 2021
This documentary offers a play-by-play account of nonviolent protests that shook up politics in Armenia in 2018.
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Sep 16, 2021
Justin Chon's immigration melodrama counters its soggy storytelling with deeply felt performances.
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Sep 16, 2021
Here are our picks for the most memorable performances with the biggest age gaps between star and character. Did they pull it off?
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Sep 16, 2021
In the movie musical, Garfield plays the creator of "Rent," who died unexpectedly at 35. Making the film helped Garfield process a death in his own life.
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Sep 15, 2021
The lawyer, activist and minister made prescient arguments on gender, race and equality that influenced Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Sep 15, 2021
Genuine scares elevate this modern take on Hansel and Gretel, which follows a bright boy who is held captive in an evil witch's apartment.
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Sep 15, 2021
The genre dates back decades, when the films were made for segregated audiences. "The Harder They Fall" nods to the past but takes a new attitude altogether.
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Sep 15, 2021
He may have been best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live," but he should be really remembered for decades of club sets and you-can't-miss-this clips.
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Sep 15, 2021
In many ways, her new film "Bruised" lets her assert control over how she appears onscreen. But first she had to win the job.
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Sep 15, 2021
The genre dates back decades, when the films were made for segregated audiences. "The Harder They Fall" nods to the past but takes a new attitude altogether.
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Sep 15, 2021
In her first major role in a feature film, she wasn't fazed by things that might unnerve others, but she had to show filmmakers how to work with deafness.
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Sep 14, 2021
Taking a look at the new season in the new abnormal, while remembering the lessons of cinema history. Are we on the cusp of a new era or will this too pass?
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Sep 14, 2021
Our chief film critics look at the new season in the new abnormal, while remembering the lessons of cinema history. Are we on the cusp of a new era or will this too pass?
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Sep 14, 2021
Our chief film critics look at the new season in the new abnormal, while remembering the lessons of cinema history. Are we on the cusp of a new era or will this too pass?
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Sep 13, 2021
He had built a career in stand-up comedy and in film and TV, but a fall from a ladder left him with a personal struggle.
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Sep 13, 2021
She explored her characters' inner lives in movies like "Killer of Sheep" and "Bless Their Little Hearts," independent works that grew out of the L.A. Rebellion movement.
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Sep 13, 2021
James N. Gianopulos, or "Jim G" as he is known in Hollywood, will be replaced by Brian Robbins, who oversees Nickelodeon.
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Sep 13, 2021
It was pushed out of the Winter Garden to make way for "The Music Man." Now this fan-favorite musical is getting a second life at the Marriott Marquis.
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Sep 13, 2021
For their first writing reunion since "Good Will Hunting," Ben Affleck and Matt Damon collaborated with the writer-director Nicole Holofcener on a period drama.
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Sep 13, 2021
For "The French Dispatch," the filmmakers set up shop in a real French city to create the setting for the movie's fictional one.
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Sep 12, 2021
Films by or about women stood out at this year's Venice International Film Festival, though they represented only a fraction of the titles showcased.
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Sep 12, 2021
Mr. Castelnuovo, who brought an incandescent charm to the screen, became famous during a golden age of Italian cinema. But his breakthrough role was in a French film.
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Sep 11, 2021
An animated epic depicting a Jewish civil war and the destruction of the Second Temple 2,000 years ago is being seen as a warning in a deeply divided country.
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Sep 10, 2021
Julie Salamon, the author of a 1991 book about the filming of "The Bonfire of the Vanities," returns to Hollywood history — and her own.
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Sep 10, 2021
A former child star and ingénue, she has come into her own as a chronicler of despair. Will "The Power of the Dog" cap her career reinvention?
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Sep 10, 2021
James Wan's horror throwback follows a young woman with a mysterious connection to a brutal killer.
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Sep 10, 2021
This month's picks include a character prone to violent outbursts, a heist thriller and more.
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Sep 10, 2021
While other directors edited out the twin towers from movies at the time, Spike Lee worked the tragedy into a story originally about other things.
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Sep 10, 2021
The filmed version of this Broadway musical lands on Apple TV to deliver hope and kindness.
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Sep 09, 2021
This documentary underscores the hard-fought lessons the immunologist learned during the AIDS pandemic. Many shape his resolve now.
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Sep 09, 2021
Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish and Willem Dafoe star in the latest head trip from Paul Schrader, a story about betting on life.
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Sep 09, 2021
Natalie Morales and Mark Duplass play a teacher and student in this found-footage story of a long-distance friendship.
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Sep 09, 2021
In this low-key shocker set in Argentina in 1980, a Swiss banker travels through a world that he doesn't seem to know is ablaze.
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Sep 09, 2021
He won an Emmy for his role on the TV series "Room 222" and played other many characters over the years before becoming known as the hit film's patriarch.
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Sep 09, 2021
John Pollono directs and stars in an adaptation of his play that adds depth to the original text but also struggles in its translation from stage to screen.
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Sep 09, 2021
This documentary tries to shed light on the attitude of a Canadian rock climber it describes as "elusive."
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Sep 09, 2021
The beautiful souls that created free jazz — including Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry and Carla Bley — light up this new documentary from Tom Surgal.
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Sep 09, 2021
A city boy inherits land used by the Mafia in this unoriginal neo-western crime thriller from Romania.
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Sep 09, 2021
Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays a vengeful contract killer in this predictable thriller.
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Sep 09, 2021
This documentary adds some material to the tragic tale of a great American writer, but also teases at what it can't deliver.
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Sep 09, 2021
John Feal works tirelessly as an advocate for rescuers injured or sickened in the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and their aftermath.
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Sep 09, 2021
Two cash-strapped neighbors devise a multimillion-dollar coupon swindle in this mildly entertaining comedy.
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Sep 09, 2021
A winning cast helps sell a too-familiar premise about commitment-phobic millennials.
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Sep 09, 2021
A new four-part documentary series by Ken Burns paints a sweeping portrait of a man whose life intersected with many of modern America's most profound changes.
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Sep 09, 2021
In new musicals about Princess Diana, Cary Grant and Michael Jackson actors get a chance to embody icons while spotlighting their individual talents.
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Sep 08, 2021
He won an Emmy for his role in the TV series "Room 222" and played many characters over the years before becoming known as the hit film's patriarch.
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Sep 08, 2021
AMC's chief executive, who started his career as a marketer, is trying to revive cinema attendance with a campaign that leans on glitz.
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Sep 08, 2021
The veteran character may have been featured in Coen brothers movies, but for a small western, he's the one who is working hard to get it seen.
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Sep 08, 2021
Whether he was doing his own stunts in action films or being nonchalant in literary adaptations, the actor was magnetic.
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Sep 08, 2021
In Pablo Larraín's unsettling film, Mariana Di Girolamo stars as a dancer who finds freedom through reggaeton dance.
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Sep 08, 2021
A movie about a female senator navigating a sex scandal felt revolutionary when a writer saw it in 2000. But its stab at feminism feels clumsy now.
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Sep 07, 2021
The filmmaker and star of "Language Lessons" discusses his teenage education in indie cinema and the screenwriting lessons in "Waiting For Godot."
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Sep 06, 2021
In movies as different as "King Richard," about Venus and Serena Williams's father, and "Petite Maman," filmmakers can't stop thinking about children.
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Sep 06, 2021
He was compared to Marlon Brando and James Dean for his acclaimed portrayals of tough, alienated characters, most memorably in Godard's "Breathless."
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Sep 06, 2021
"The Lost Daughter," like "The White Lotus" and "Nine Perfect Strangers," takes its characters on vacation but they're hardly getting away.
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Sep 05, 2021
The internet's favorite mollusk is the subject of a new film. In the process of making it, she realized, "I was doing something that actually was very personal."
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Sep 03, 2021
Bernard Rose followed up his 1992 horror classic with a Beethoven biopic and four Tolstoy adaptations. Will the new sequel give him another shot?
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Sep 03, 2021
After watching the world premiere, our columnist has a better idea of the risks and expectations as the film heads to the box office and awards season.
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Sep 03, 2021
This month's picks deal more with inner turmoil and isolation than space exploration.
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Sep 03, 2021
The star of "Spencer" may be one of the few actresses with an inkling of what it's like to be so often hounded by the paparazzi.
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Sep 03, 2021
Camila Cabello stars in this musical reimagining of the fairy tale, which centers on an orphaned maiden who yearns not for true love but for corporate success as a dressmaker.
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