MOVIES

The composers and filmmakers I spoke to about Britell emphasized the poetic intelligence he brings to his work. But his...

The National Air and Space Museum holds some of the most hallowed objects of the aerial age.Visitors can marvel at...

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.NEW...

Though she likes ballet, Sofia Coppola doesn’t consider herself an aficionado. Still, when she received an email from the New...

On the heels of one of the most unusual and controversial Oscar ceremonies to date, Netflix in the United States...

When “La Bamba” premiered in the summer of 1987, the expectations for its success were low. The film was based...

A self-described “lifelong space nerd,” Weir grew up in the Bay Area, where his father worked as a particle physicist....

Olympia Dukakis, the self-assured, raspy-voiced actress who often played world-weary and worldly wise characters, and who won an Academy Award...

If the comedy “Bad Trip” had premiered in theaters as intended until it moved to Netflix because of the pandemic,...

New to Amazon‘The Underground Railroad’Starts streaming: May 14At once historical and fantastical, Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer- and National Book Award-winning novel...

Situating the bulk of its action in 2019, “Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse” updates Clancy’s 1993 novel by opening with a...

Roy Andersson’s latest feature is a somber, exhilarating collection of self-defeating human specimens.

These new horror movies offer scares from a global perspective, including an Indonesian witch, an Irish vampire, Canadian home invaders...

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

The film tells the story of an aspiring high school wrestler with cerebral palsy.

Anthony Powell, an inventive British costume designer who won three Oscars but is perhaps best known for the outlandish clothing...

“But at the same time,” she continued, “there were a lot of people I felt that had pigeonholed me into...

In 2018, the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro declared that he wanted “a Brazil similar to the one we had 40,...

Nothing says “family bonding” like a road trip through a robot apocalypse. At least that’s the case for the Mitchells...

I’ll say this much for “Things Heard & Seen”: it absolutely lives up to its name. If, out of curiosity...

The existential anxiety of the paid assassin is a tricky theme — so tricky as to be potentially invalid, even....

“Cliff Walkers,” the new picture from the protean Chinese director Zhang Yimou, arrives here after a hiccup in his filmography.“One...

Alfred Döblin’s masterpiece “Berlin Alexanderplatz” received its most famous dramatization not at the movies but on TV, with Rainer Werner...

“Four Good Days” deals with the recoveries of two people: a heroin addict and her mother, who has given up...

The comedy “The Outside Story” takes a listless look at the life of Charles (Brian Tyree Henry), who is moping...

With his debut film, “Eat Wheaties!,” Scott Abramovitch has wrangled the kind of cast that most first-time directors dream of:...

Most of the films we’ve seen about the migrant and refugee situation in Europe in recent years are gritty, often...

Christopher Walken plays a beleaguered farmer in this understated environmental drama.

There’s a strange irony in the appalling trajectory of “Lucy the Human Chimp,” a documentary about an experiment that forced...

There is perfect. And then there is almost perfect.And as anyone who’s ever gotten a 99 percent on a test...

A wildly eclectic, cutting edge and globe-spanning lineup has always epitomized New Directors/New Films, the annual showcase of emerging filmmakers...

“Best Summer Ever” is a high school musical. It isn’t “High School Musical” — it’s better. Tender and exuberant, it...

The Academy Awards looked different this year: The red carpet was hemmed, and the after-parties were cut.The ceremony was held...

About four hours after he won best actor at the 93rd Academy Awards in an upset, Anthony Hopkins delivered his...

LOS ANGELES — In a break with tradition, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to end its...

We have an upset.Anthony Hopkins, who won a best actor Oscar almost three decades ago (not two decades as was...

The producers of the 2021 Oscars had said that they planned to make the annual telecast more like a film....

LOS ANGELES — For the film industry, which was already fighting to hold its place at the center of American...

In the streaming era, it’s hard to find the answer. But if movies are in existential limbo, at least there...

It was a night of firsts: First Korean actor to win an Oscar, oldest performer to win best actor, first...