Movie

NOW THAT THANKSGIVING IS OVER and we have enjoyed gathering with family and friends to give thanks for the people and things that really matter in this life, it is time to seriously indulge in that age old...

Early in “Hillbilly,” Ashley York and Sally Rubin’s documentary about stereotypes of rural whites from the Appalachian region of the U.S., we learn that Kentucky’s two biggest employers are the coal industry and Wal-Mart. Then we meet...

The problem with writing an obituary about Ricky Jay, who passed away yesterday at the age of 72, is that he’s perhaps the only person truly qualified to sum up his life. Even someone trying to...

There’s a moment when you get lost in a memory so intense that when you emerge, you aren’t sure if you’ve been spacing out for a second or a minute. That’s where Nicolas Roeg’s cinema lived.   Roeg, the British...

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or-winning “Shoplifters” opens with a perfectly calibrated scene that sets the table for what’s to come. A man and a boy are in a store. They keep making eye contact, moving slowly through...

The character Pippi Longstocking, beloved misbehaver of children’s literature since 1945, doesn’t appear in this movie and is barely even mentioned. In her native Sweden, the name Astrid Lindgren is all but synonymous with Pippi, so...

Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Wesley Morris, who is currently the cultural critic at The New York Times and was a guest host on “Siskel & Ebert,” will receive the Roger Ebert Award from The African American Film Critics...

“Welcome Home” is part of a long tradition of thrillers about devil figures who amplify tension in a couple’s relationship, hoping to steal one half of the couple away, or simply torment (and maybe kill) both of them. The couple...

With films like “Dogtooth,” “The Lobster,” and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ internationally acclaimed works have been concerned with looming domestic dynamics and battles among couples, siblings and families residing under one roof....

“Creed II” falls victim to the sins of sequelitis—it’s bigger, louder and more grandiose than its predecessor—yet manages to right itself by not losing focus on the humanity of its central characters. The lives of Adonis...