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In “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” co-writer/directors Phil Johnston and Rich Moore take Wreck-It Ralph out of the confined space of 8-bit arcade games and into the wild world of the Internet, which in their version looks...

“Mid90s,” about a young skateboarding teenager falling in with a group of older boys, is an accomplished debut feature from actor turned writer-director Jonah Hill. It’s affecting, loose, sharply observed, emotional but not sentimental. It’s also faithful to the...

The lineup for the 21st Indie Memphis Film Festival was such an embarrassment of riches it would have been impossible to catch all of the screenings over the five days of the fest’s schedule (events continued into...

The tale of the ill-fated queen of Scotland is really the story of two queens—Mary and Elizabeth, cousins of different religions. “Mary Queen of Scots,” which made its world premiere as the closing gala of AFI...

Few names have held as much power in the world of screenwriting as that of William Goldman. His book Adventures in the Screen Trade was one of the first I ever read from the viewpoint of...

Even on a clear day, what you can’t see can hurt you. I was talking to another AFI Fest attendee who was suffering since the weekend from burning eyes from the ash-filled atmosphere due to the...

The “Harry Potter” prequel “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is a big-budget, holiday-timed blockbuster about…racism, which may not exactly be the joyful, escapist entertainment families are looking for this time of year. Certainly, J.K. Rowling’s...

“Shoah: Four Sisters,” a quartet of features interviewing female Holocaust survivors, is the final project by documentary filmmaker and historian Claude Lanzmann, who died this past summer at 92. Built mainly from footage that Lanzmann did not use in...

They call it a “crush” for a reason, and no crush—not Davy Jones of the Monkees, not Jonathan Taylor Thomas or Taylor Hanson, not Chris the DJ or Ed Chigliak from “Northern Exposure,” not a recent...

It’s interesting to consider how prestige television has changed the way we ingest true stories. It’s not that long ago that real-life dramas like the murder of Gianni Versace and the standoff with David Koresh would...