Chilean director Pablo Larrain has completed his trilogy of films about important women of the 20th century. In 2016, he released “Jackie,” a fascinating account of Jackie Kennedy’s life during...

21 years after the stage musical first opened, Stephen Schwartz’ and Winnie Holzman’s “Wicked” has finally hit the big screen. And unlike many motion picture adaptations of musicals, this one’s...

Denzel Washington has made it his goal to adapt all of the late August Wilson’s plays into motion pictures. He personally directed “Fences” (2016) and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” (2020)....

Edward Berger’s new drama “Conclave” has been hailed as one of this year’s best films. And it is, for the most part, a tight, gripping production for adults, featuring solid...

Perhaps no film this year has built up expectations quite like Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a modern-day take on the screwball comedy genre, ramped up to power ten. This is the...

There was an excellent film out last month called “The Outrun” in which Saoirse Ronan plays an alcoholic who returns to her isolated Scottish village and attempts to set her...

In one of the great ironies of cinema history, there has never been a great biography of the great Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Yes, I know Ben Kingsley played...

Over the years, there have been a handful of films that tackle the tricky subject of alcoholism. “The Lost Weekend,” “The Days of Wine and Roses,” and “Leaving Las Vegas”...

In Megan Park’s new comedy-drama “My Old Ass,” film newcomer Maisy Stella turns in an excellent performance as Elliott, a lesbian teen living on her family’s New England cranberry farm...

Film biographies are notoriously difficult to make. At least successfully. For every “The Theory of Everything” (the brilliant portrait of famed physicist Stephen Hawking), there is a “Maestro” (Bradley Cooper’s...