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“Casting JonBenet” is not what you expect. It is not like the dozens of true crime episodes of shows like “Dateline NBC” or “48 Hours” that have analyzed the most famous unsolved murder of the ‘90s...

The 21st century has not yet produced a whole lot of noteworthy “what is reality?” movies, perhaps because we’re too busy wondering “what is reality?” in real life to be potentially entertained by a fictional iteration...

“One Week and a Day” is an incredibly tactful tragicomedy from debut writer/director Asaph Polonsky about two parents figuring out what to do next after their son dies. In the long list of movies about death,...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX”The BFG””The Daughter””The Eyes of My Mother””Kubo and the Two Strings””Mifune: The Last Samurai””Newtown””The Prestige””Queen of Katwe””The Secret Life of Pets””Southside with You”14 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD”Buena Vista Social Club” (Criterion)Wim Wenders’ Oscar-nominated concert...

Justin Simien’s 2014 debut feature “Dear White People” was a film of the moment upon release. The college campus satire arrived at a time when conversations about identity politics were bubbling up to the mainstream, despite...

The world lost one of its best filmmakers this week with the death of Jonathan Demme. It’s difficult to imagine a film writer who wasn’t greatly influenced by his work and worldview. Matt Zoller Seitz penned...

I had no idea how much Jonathan Demme’s work meant to me until I heard he was gone.The director, who died today at 73, was unobtrusively spot-on nearly every time he stepped behind a camera. Even...

This year’s Tribeca Film Festival offers three compelling documentaries about different performers having their work captured on camera, whether by the subject themselves (“I Am Heath Ledger”), a presidential insistence (“The Reagan Years”) or by a...

Of all the major contemporary American filmmakers of note, Francis Ford Coppola is perhaps the biggest gambler of the bunch, coming up with wildly ambitious projects that he would cheerfully stake his money and reputation on....

The fascinations of “Obit,” Vanessa Gould’s slick but entertaining documentary about the New York Times obituary department, operate on two levels. On the more superficial level, readers of the Times are bound to enjoy an inside...