NEW YORK: As a filmmaker drawn to the most visceral forms of cinema, it was probably inevitable that Kathryn Bigelow’s high-adrenaline curiosities would...
NEW YORK: “I’ve been having glitches,” Scarlett Johansson’s part-human, mostly cyborg character remarks in “The Ghost in the...
NEW YORK: Founded as it was, in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, political currents have always flowed through the Tribeca Film Festival. This year, the...
NEW YORK: Fresh off his co-starring role in “La La Land,” John Legend is trying another medium: virtual reality. Legend will executive produce and lend his...
NEW YORK: The Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo makes funny, fantastical, Frankenstein-like films that playfully combine small-scale with big-concept. His 2011...
NEW YORK: If they ever sat still long enough, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin would make a respectable Mount Rushmore. You won’t find a more...
NEW YORK: Fifty years after Sidney Poitier upended the latent racial prejudices of his white date’s liberal family in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,”...
NEW YORK: It will be “1984” again in movie theaters across America, come Tuesday. About 190 art-house theaters have banded together to show the...
NEW YORK: Life is a box of chocolates, a highway and, alas, a mediocre science-fiction thriller. In Daniel Espinosa’s “Life,” an international space station...
LOS ANGELES: Oscar winner, take two. Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” – not “La La Land” – won best picture at the Academy...
LOS ANGELES: Ahead of Sunday’s 89th Academy Awards, film writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr share their predictions for what many expect to be a “La La Land”...
NEW YORK: Theodore Melfi’s buoyant “Hidden Figures” is an old-fashioned feel-good movie with powerful contemporary relevance, spearheaded by...
NEW YORK: With its dramatic swings of fortune, Hollywood’s 2016 awards season has often resembled a confounding morality play. Hailed as an Oscar sure-thing...
NEW YORK: Say what you like about Gore Verbinski’s “The Lone Ranger.” It didn’t lack for ambition. Verbinski’s $215 million film was a bid to reorient the...
NEW YORK: In all the kinked knots and twists of satin that adorn “Fifty Shades Darker,” none is more worthwhile to uncoil than the tangled absurdities of its...
NEW YORK: Even as Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi layers his films with complexity – with characters whose intimacies are crowded by politics, society...
NEW YORK: Melissa McCarthy lampooned White House press secretary Sean Spicer in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch where she taunted reporters as “losers,” fired...
NEW YORK: The cast of “Hidden Figures” rocketed to the Screen Actors Guild top award at a fiery, protest-laden ceremony dominated by defiance over Trump’s...
NEW YORK: The Reformation is said to have toppled the Renaissance but the decline of the McConaissance is harder to delineate. It was probably inevitable that...
NEW YORK: History was made across Tuesday’s 89th Academy Awards nominations: The musical “La La Land” reaped a record-tying 14 nominations, and a wave of...
NEW YORK: Ketchup, mustard, two pickles. In John Lee Hancock’s “The Founder,” about Ray Kroc and the making of McDonald’s, the ingredients for success are...
NEW YORK: Bombs detonated in Boston are disarmed by bonds of family and community in Peter Berg’s “Patriots Day,” a stirring ode to civic...
LOS ANGELES: “La La Land” steamrolled, “Moonlight” swooped in at the last minute and Meryl Streep offered a stirring rebuke to President-elect Donald Trump at...
NEW YORK: John Berger, the British art critic, intellectual and prodigious author, whose pioneering 1972 book “Ways of Seeing,” and the BBC series...
NEW YORK: “Make sure they know to play it loud,” the filmmaker Maren Ade advises ahead of a screening of her film, “Toni Erdmann.” Since its rollicking debut...