The title of Steve James’ new documentary “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail” is a play on a phrase that was popularized during the 2008 financial crisis: that certain banks were “too big to fail” and had...

The idea of just walking away from a seemingly settled life is one that’s gotten a pretty good workout in both film and literature. The 2008 short story “Wakefield,” by American literary giant E.L. Doctorow, put...

What we casually refer to as the Cannes Film Festival is actually several festivals in one. There’s the festival proper — the “official selection,” which consists of movies that screen at theaters adjoining the famous Palais...

Charismatic film actors can work miracles with so-so material. But there usually comes a point when they can no longer camouflage that the story they are so earnestly committed to telling is somewhat suspect.For at least...

HBO’s “The Wizard of Lies” reunites a filmmaker and star once at the top of their games. In the ‘80s and most of the ‘90s, a film starring Robert De Niro and a film directed by...

In his appraisal of Spike Lee’s “She Hate Me,” critic Nathan Rabin describes a “Morning Paper Auteur” thusly: “A filmmaker who picks up the morning paper, grows more enraged about each article he reads, and decides...

“That’s the point of a commune. You support each other.” Said by one character at a moment of crisis in Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Commune,” it expresses the ideal of living in community. If a group of...

A new study by Haukeland University in Norway has found nearly one-quarter of patients with a mechanical heart valve report the valve disturbs their sleep....Read More

All-Pro running back Adrian Peterson is ditching Minneapolis for the Bayou. His Minnesota home was officially put on the market Wednesday....Read More

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees was reluctant to say much regarding his reaction to Gisele Bundchen’s recent comments about her husband, Tom Brady....Read More