Movie

Sunlight still washed over Los Angeles on Sunday late afternoon when cinema enthusiasts and aspiring professionals began lining up outside Auburn, a fine dining establishment on the corner of Melrose and Citrus, to partake in a...

“Wendy,” a passion project for Benh Zeitlin, the director who shook Sundance and then the rest of the world with “Beasts of the Southern Wild” almost a decade ago, plays out like listening to someone else...

“While young critics dream of being pull-quoted, I asked for mine not to be used. Here’s why.” Like some critics, I’ve thought about the feeling of seeing my name attached to a film I loved. It...

Netflix’s new true crime six-part series “The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez” is one of the toughest things I’ve ever watched. It details graphically the horrendous abuse and death of a child by his mother and stepfather...

Joe Gatto, Salvatore Vulcano, Brian “Q” Quinn, and James “Murr” Murray hit comedy gold when they came up with the concept of being the Impractical Jokers—a quartet of friends where one person (with an earpiece) is put into...

I was astonished and moved when I listened to “Roger Ebert,” the new song inspired by words of my late husband, which serves as the lead track on Forever Just Beyond, a new album from guitarist/vocalist Eef Barzelay as Clem...

5 NEW TO NETFLIX “A Bad Moms Christmas””The Ballad of Lefty Brown””By the Sea””Good Time””Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” 8 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “21 Bridges” Chadwick Boseman stars in a relatively no-frills thriller of the kind...

In 1977, Harrison Ford made me believe he was talking to Greedo and Jabba the Hutt in “Star Wars,” and those characters were as low-tech as Gumby and Pokey compared to the technology used to create Ford’s canine...

“Each of us is the priest of Christ,” a juvenile detention center priest tells the members of his wayward flock, advice one of them takes very literally to heart in the Polish drama “Corpus Christi.” That...

The Japanese animated romantic-drama “Ride Your Wave” starts off as a cute love story, but quickly becomes a moving character study about accepting personal loss. We follow charming, but clumsy surfer Hinako (Rina Kawaei) as she...