Jay Kelly, the subject of Noah Baumbach’s new film “Jay Kelly,” is a 60-ish movie star, well-known and respected all over the world. Subtle hints in Baumbach’s and Emily Mortimer’s...

Guillermo del Toro has made a career of making motion pictures about fairy tale monsters. But not monster movies like the teenage horror flick du jour. No, del Toro’s body...

Robert Grainier, the central figure of the new film “Train Dreams,” works as a logger in the mountains of upstate Idaho in the early part of the 20th century. During...

Following the fall of the Nazi empire in Germany, 22 Nazi government and military leaders were tried in an IMT, or International Military Tribunal, held in Nuremberg, Germany. Attorneys and...

Just one week after the release of “Blue Moon,” his exploration of the decline of songwriter Lorenz Hart, comes “Nouvelle Vague,” director Richard Linklater’s tribute to Jean-Luc Godard’s groundbreaking 1959...

For my money, the best film so far this millennium has been Richard Linklater’s 2014 drama “Boyhood.” This was the one that was filmed over an eleven-year period, so that...

One of the top-rated films of 1985 was Hector Babenco’s adaptation of Manuel Puig’s novel, “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” In an Oscar-winning performance, William Hurt starred as a gay...

Eleanor Morgenstein is a 94-year-old Florida resident who decides to move back to New York upon the death of her best friend Bessie. So, at this late stage in life...

I’ve never thought of Paul Thomas Anderson as an action-film kind of director. While never boring or slow, Anderson’s films are typically more cerebral, often centered around complex studies of...

Filmmaker Kogonada’s first feature film was the quirky 2017 indie “Columbus,” an intergenerational love story set against the backdrop of the Columbus, Indiana architecture scene. It received rave reviews and...