Movies

Every March, the college town of Columbia, Missouri, swells with documentary filmmakers, movie fans, students, and culturally curious locals all lining up in front of churches, a nightclub that doubles as a screening venue, and the stalwart independent two-screen...

Over the last few years, the adult sibling dynamic has been explored to great effect in a number of sharply funny and/or dramatically impactful series.Think Carmy and “Sugar” Berzatto in “The Bear.” The Garvey quintet in “Bad Sisters.” Coop...

From direct-to-streaming films to a handful of limited series, Nicole Kidman’s face has become as synonymous with the modern thriller as broody detectives have. In Prime Video’s new series “Scarpetta,” the actress plays chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, who...

The problematic history of the Oscars recognizing—or failing to recognize—Black people in the acting categories is a well-trod subject. We all heard about #OscarsSoWhite in 2015 and 2016, a two-year span in which all 40 acting nominees were white....

Sam Shainberg’s “Endless Sea” opens on a dreary metropolitan street where it looks like freezing rain has been pouring all morning. Carol (Brenda Cullerton) has a collection of recyclables she deposits for a little extra pocket change. She then...

The live-action anime adaptation is always a dicey proposition, no less so when it’s Netflix doing the adapting. Their version of “Cowboy Bebop” was a dour, muggy reshuffling of the series’ events with a mismatched cast and no sense...

One of my favorite coffee-table books in a very long time is now available in stores: Martin Scorsese: All the Films by Olivier Bousquet, Arnaud Devillard, and Nicolas Schaller. Admittedly, I’m biased because of my unceasing adoration of Martin Scorsese’s...

Seventy years ago, the Hollywood studio system was in slow decline, with constant reshuffling in corporate suites and reduced attendance spurred by the rise of television. By the 1955–56 season, the number of US households with television access had...