A debut film from Channing Godfrey Peoples set in Forth Worth, Texas, tenderly explores themes of beauty, family, and inequality.

The Hollywood classic is a soap opera and a war movie smashed together. It’s also really, really racist.

A new documentary and a new book about the disgraced pedophile only gesture at the upper-crust social milieu that tolerated his crimes.

The director’s latest is a maximalist spectacle that seems torn between comedy and tragedy.

Josephine Decker’s film “Shirley” turns a writer’s life and friendships into a gripping psychodrama.

“The Painter and the Thief” is a dispatch from the space where a man’s life and his portrait intersect.

The documentary “AKA Jane Roe” is a lesson in how the law dehumanizes those it claims to protect.

Two artists use painstaking techniques to take on a dark episode in Chilean history.

The fourth and final installment of the culinary travelogue takes the bromance to new heights.

A new biopic reveals what the antihero of Prohibition can teach us today.

“Becoming,” a new documentary, obliquely reveals the ways in which this country did the former First Lady wrong.

An intimate documentary about Los Angeles’s queer history

An investigation into the most toxic book of a toxic season.

All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom.

The 1975 Spielberg flick captures the dread of facing an invisible enemy—and the incompetence of the politicians in charge.

Sometimes fiction is stranger—and more revealing—than truth.

Scary movies can thrill us. Do they also have to mean something?

This unsettling movie about a Harvey Weinstein–like figure confronts the systems that support sexual misconduct.

"Like a Boss" inadvertently lays bare some unfunny truths about hashtag-empowerment.

Alex Gibney’s new documentary about Mikhail Khodorkovsky presents a complex picture of a dissident.