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“Thank You For Your Service,” an involving and often wrenching drama about Iraq War veterans adapting to civilian life, is a film that teaches you how to watch it. Adapted and directed by Jason Hall (“American Sniper”) from a same-titled nonfiction...

What a difference a year makes. When I arrived at last year’s Middleburg Film Festival, awash as usual in Mother Nature’s autumnal splendor in the heart of Virginia’s wine and horse country, I was visually assaulted...

Ruben Östlund’s newest film, the winner of the top prize at Cannes and official selection at the New York Film Festival, clicked into place during this interview when he started describing being inspired by the Leos...

In 2014, screenwriter Jason Hall made a giant splash in Hollywood when he wrote the screenplay for the highly successful Clint Eastwood film “American Sniper,” about our country’s deadliest sniper, Chris Kyle (adapted from Kyle’s memoir). For...

“The Killing of a Sacred Deer” by visionary director Yorgos Lanthimos shared the Best Screenplay award at Cannes, where it premiered earlier this year. Lanthimos’ unique and hypnotic style turns the story of a seemingly affluent...

Laura Mora’s extraordinarily moving Colombian drama “Killing Jesús” won the Roger Ebert Award last Friday at the 2017 Chicago International Film Festival. Beyond its thrilling cinematography and exceptional cast of non-actors, this film contained the richest, most deeply...

How do you follow-up a phenomenon? How do you engineer lightning striking twice? In today’s increasingly crowded Peak TV landscape, it feels like sophomore slumps are harder to avoid than ever, and there’s a lot of...

When I interviewed David Schwimmer in 2011 about his movie, “Trust,” we were scheduled to meet in a restaurant on the first floor of his small boutique hotel in Washington DC. But it turned out to...

Griffin Dunne’s documentary “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold,” which opens October 27th at the Metrograph in New York and starts streaming on Netflix then, is an unusually personal and close-up look at one of America’s greatest...

There has been some question as to whether now is the proper time to release a film like “Geostorm” and not just because it arrives in theaters bearing all the hallmarks of a cinematic disaster in...