‘The Perfect Candidate’ Film Review: A Saudi Woman Finds Her Voice in Piercing Political Tale
Venice 2019: A run for local office empowers a young doctor in Haifaa Al Mansour’s feminist tale
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‘La Llorona’ Film Review: Jayro Bustamante Examines Real-Life Historical Horror in Impressive Third Feature
The title may conjure up the supernatural, but this shrewd film contemplates the actual genocide perpetrated against Guatemala’s indigenous population
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‘One Night in Miami’ Film Review: Regina King Goes the Distance in Impressive Feature Directorial Debut
Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke spend a memorable evening together in Kemp Powers’ adaptation of his stage play
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‘City Hall’ Film Review: Frederick Wiseman Celebrates the Power of Civic Engagement
Boston mayor Marty Walsh becomes a constant figure in this examination of the good that government can potentially do with community involvement
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‘Nomadland’ Wins Golden Lion Award at Venice Film Festival
Acting awards went to Vanessa Kirby and Pierfrancesco Favino at the scaled-down festival
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‘Hopper/Welles’ Film Review: Dennis Hopper and Orson Welles Put on Quite a Talk Show
Venice Film Festival 2020: Another posthumous film credited to Welles, this filmed conversation is alternately fascinating and frustrating, as Welles prods and needles Hopper for more than two hours
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‘Mosquito State’ Film Review: Wall Street Needs Some Insecticide in Creepy Drama
Venice Film Festival: Filip Jan Rymsza’s film about a stock analyst who has an unhealthy fascination with mosquitoes will get under your skin, that’s for sure
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‘Pieces of a Woman’ Film Review: Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf Explore Shades of Grief
Venice Film Festival: The film from Cannes-winning director Kornel Mundruczó is an extended meditation on coping with unimaginable loss
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‘The Painted Bird’ Film Review: Jerzy Kosiński Adaptation Is Gruesome, Poetic Epic of Inhumanity
Anchored by breathtaking visuals and a powerful child performance, Václav Marhoul’s three-hour film is a worthy endurance saga
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‘Seberg’ Film Review: Kristen Stewart Captures the Spirit of a Martyred Icon
The film recounts the FBI’s targeting of the New Wave film star for her support of the Black Panthers
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Cate Blanchett Named President of Venice International Film Festival Competition Jury
The 77th annual festival will be held in September
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‘Marriage Story’ Film Review: Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver Break Apart in Noah Baumbach’s Devastating Drama
The writer-director’s streak of humane, heartbreaking films continues with this powerful and poignant tale
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‘The King’ Film Review: Timothée Chalamet Fights for the Crown, On and Off the Battlefield
David Michôd (“War Machine”) gives us a Henry V who plays fast and loose with both history and Shakespeare
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‘The Laundromat’ Film Review: Steven Soderbergh’s Panama Papers Tale Is a Messy Exposé
Not even Meryl Streep, Antonio Banderas and a miscast Gary Oldman can elevate this would-be “Big Short”
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‘Ad Astra’ Film Review: Brad Pitt Journeys to the Edge of Space and the Depths of His Character’s Soul
Pitt’s aloof astronaut sets out to find the father who paved his literal and emotional pathways
