Movies

The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will pay tribute to Stellan Skarsgård, Vicky Krieps, Dakota Johnson, and Peter Sarsgaard, welcoming the actors to personally present screenings of their recent films, festival organizers for the upcoming 59th edition announced Wednesday.In...

AMC’s (formerly Disney’s) “Nautilus” is nine-tenths fun adventure. We’re talking otherworldly sea creatures, lost treasure, and 1850s technical marvels, portrayed by the best our 2020s studios can offer. The ten-part first season follows Nemo (an appealing Shazad Latif), the...

There is a moment in Terry Gilliam’s 1985 dystopian masterpiece “Brazil” where the film stops being dazzling, sets aside the Pythonesque humor, and lets humanity have a moment to itself. The lowly bureaucrat, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), drops off...

No one signs up for the Squid Game—contestant or viewer alike—expecting to have a good time. Netflix’s smash-hit Korean thriller series was a massive, massive hit in its first season, partly due to its uncompromising (but hardly subtle) exploration...

Mariana Treviño stars in AppleTV+ series “Stick,” playing the mother of a talented but vulnerable young golfer (played by Peter Dager). Owen Wilson and Mark Maron co-star as a former pro golfer and his caddie/coach, who are trying to...

A new documentary profiles journalist Barbara Walters, who fought sexist bullies throughout her career and still landed the biggest interviews. NPR's Michel Martin talks with director Jackie Jesko. ...

One of my favorite moments in Season 4 of “The Bear” is a kind of delicate ballet before the chaos—a dialogue-free sequence that lasts nearly three minutes. With the camera swooping in elegantly slow fashion about the kitchen, Ayo...

The first streaming service series ever broadcast in the United States was Netflix’s dark, no-holds-barred political drama “House of Cards.” Its arrival seeded the idea that these new platforms could offer stories and execution that rivalled that of cable...