The show set in a French talent agency is the antidote to superficial satires on Hollywood.

We live in a work-obsessed country that, at least according to the film and television we binge, hates work more than anything.

It has taken decades for his Century Cycle plays to reach the screen—but not for lack of interest.

His “Up” series chronicled lives over five decades and revealed profound changes in society.

The new movie with Carey Mulligan takes a bold approach to a story of sexual assault.

The pandemic has only accelerated a years-long trend of cultural homogenization—and it is bound to get worse.

The recent appearance of so-called monoliths in Utah and around the world taps into a deep-seated fascination.

The upheavals of Hong Kong’s history lie just beneath the surface of his greatest films.

Alex Winter’s new documentary about the musician fails to capture his deeply conventional streak.

Amid the pandemic, a recent documentary about Native American food culture asks audiences to reexamine the origins of this strange holiday.

What my daughter and I learned from watching the legendary animator’s movies during the pandemic

A new documentary, “537 Votes,” takes viewers back to the 2000 Florida recount—and shows how little has changed since then.

Why the Netflix movie falls short as a critique of Silicon Valley

In her new film, “Kajillionaire,” a family tries to slip free of capitalism.

“The Cosby Show,” “#blackAF,” and the misleading fixation on the “racial wealth gap”

Recent adaptations of the Dickens and Austen novels teach us how to foster joy in a time of fear and contagion.

Black films have championed Black lives for over 100 years—while white America studiously ignored them.

Michael Almereyda’s movie dismantles romantic notions about creativity, invention, and making money.

The documentary about a political boot camp is a depressingly accurate microcosm of the American electoral circus.

Johnny Depp and Mark Rylance play the enforcers of empire in the film based on J.M. Coetzee’s novel.