Movies

Across the two features she's made to date, Payal Kapadia has emerged as a luminous new voice in Indian cinema, exploring the personal as political through her shimmering, empathetic portraits of working-class Mumbai. Her first feature, "A Night of Knowing...

Daihachi Yoshida's "Teki Cometh" is the first Japanese film in 19 years to win the top prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival. The win reflects a feeling of optimism that pervaded this year's TIFF, as Japanese theaters bounce...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Rebecca Rubin, senior film and media reporter at Variety, about the unusual success of the movie Conclave....

The Palm Springs International Festival is a major stop on the awards season highway, a place where some of the most likely Oscar nominees are honored for not just their latest performance, but a career of excellence. PSIF announced...

The 2020s have been prime for Asian-made films and shows that explore the Asian-American experience in unique and captivating ways. Sean Wang's Myspace-era dramedy feature "Dìdi" and Disney's modern adaptation of "American Born Chinese" underlined the relatable identity struggles...

Looking over the program for the Tokyo International Film Festival, there were a few titles that I recognized. The idea of catching up with films that had eluded me up to that point was tempting: Mati Diop's intriguing "Dahomey,"...

For those unfamiliar, a landman is the public-facing side of an oil company's production team; their job is to secure leases and mineral rights for oil drilling. As Taylor Sheridan's umpteenth show for Paramount Plus would have you believe,...

Women and how they wield power are at the center of HBO's new series Dune: Prophecy, a prequel to the epic first imagined by Frank Herbert in the 1960s. ...