MOVIES

Pour Cottin, Andréa est un personnage qu’elle admire et comprend à la fois, mais qu’elle ressent très éloignée de sa...

The New York Times traduit en français une sélection de ses meilleurs articles. Retrouvez-les ici.A l’évidence, quand les films americains...

In this florid drama streaming on Amazon, two contestants for a prestigious dance award stop at nothing to prevail.

Out with the hand drawn-animated ponies, in with their creepily-anthropomorphized, digitally-animated brethren: the “new generation,” if you will, which includes...

“Your eyes are like two mountain lakes I could sink into” is a compliment most women would be disinclined to...

Melissa McCarthy stars in this film on Netflix that takes shortcuts, at nearly every turn, in portraying the messiness of...

Melvin Van Peebles, the filmmaker praised as the godfather of modern Black cinema and a trailblazer in American independent movies,...

The setting is a ballet class, and the year is 1974. George Balanchine throws up his arms in exasperation at...

This month’s off-the-radar recommendations include a trio of terrific (but modest) indies from earlier this year, along with a thoughtful...

When Michael Gandolfini was filming his role in “The Many Saints of Newark,” a period crime drama that casts him...

When Gillian Flynn submitted her novel “Gone Girl” to her publisher, Crown, she wasn’t sure what executives would make of...

Freedom, Maine, population 722, is about as far away from Hollywood as you can get. So when Erin French, who...

Anthony Johnson, an actor and comedian known for small but memorable roles in “Friday,” “House Party” and about two dozen...

When you’re making a movie musical, you’re probably going to be looking for actors who can, you know, sing. It’s...

The New York Times traduit en français une sélection de ses meilleurs articles. Retrouvez-les ici.L’épice doit couler. Mais le public...

“Would you like to move to the orchestra?” a voice from the dark whispered.I was at the Toronto International Film...

Maverick has called space.The Inspiration4 crew has talked to the actor Tom Cruise: Maverick was the call sign of his...

You have to credit “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” for boldness: This new British musical is not afraid to be predictable....

In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their...

Movies continue to return to theaters, and some of our most popular heroes — James Bond; Neo and Trinity; a...

Jessica Chastain spent years pursuing the opportunity to play Tammy Faye Messner, the indefatigable star of Christian broadcasting. Better known...

In the world of “The Sopranos,” there’s family, and then there’s “family” — those hard-won, deep-seated mob ties that make...

Jane Powell, whose pert good looks and lyrical soprano voice brought her Hollywood stardom before she was out of her...

Joan Washington, an acclaimed dialect coach who taught Penélope Cruz to sound Greek, Jessica Chastain to sound Israeli and an...

The Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce is best known for his provocative spins on modern sexuality, but his latest is a...

In mathematics, there was Newton; in psychology, there was Freud; and in American ballet, George Balanchine was a foundational genius....

This sensitive documentary by the French filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz naturalistically explores the struggles of a 7-year-old transgender girl.

Two years ago, Max Harwood made a video in his bedroom.A second-year student at a musical theater school in London,...

If you were watching television in America in the 1970s and ’80s — the old three-network days that now seem...

“My Name Is Pauli Murray,” the plainly pedagogical documentary by the filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen, hinges on the...

A hall of mirrors reflecting not terribly much, “The Nowhere Inn,” directed by Bill Benz, is an in-joke perpetrated by...

In the 1990s Diony Arce, lead singer of the Cuban heavy metal group Zeus, was jailed for six years. That...

A new French documentary, directed by Antoine Vitkine, arrives in the United States with less fanfare than expected. A better...

In this latest work by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a Japanese couple’s relationship is shaped by the forces of churning nationalism that...

“Blue Bayou” opens on a close-up of Antonio LeBlanc (played by the writer and director, Justin Chon) interviewing for a...

Can a mop of curly hair, a backpack and an outfit that looks like a mother’s choice for school picture...

Jon (Andrew Garfield) is throwing a party, though there’s hardly a reason to celebrate. He’s riven with anxiety, his cramped...

Though she lived humbly, Murray, who called her preferred method of persuasion “confrontation by typewriter,” was long aware of her...

In the children’s horror movie “Nightbooks,” a preteen boy is held hostage by a malevolent witch. Alex (Winslow Fegley) is...

Letterman proved to be a key figure in Macdonald’s career, a champion of the stand-up’s work (the talk-show host said...