Movies

Hikari is a hugger. She’s also a laugher, a believer, and a kinetic source of excitement. When she arrived for our talk, she swooped in sporting a fern green shag coat. She immediately gives the publicist a tender, friendly...

Lyrical and elegiac even while being rooted in hope and tenderness, director Clint Bentley’s “Train Dreams” moves with the grace of a liturgy. The film centers on a logger, Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), whose work building railroads tames America’s vast...

My eighth-grade teacher’s name was Mrs. Hughes. She always told us not to be a bump on a log if she saw that we weren’t using our energy to its full potential. I thought she’d coined the phrase until...

Before I was a friend and colleague, I was a fan.In my early and mid-teens in the 1970s, I was a loner jock/pop culture nerd who was obsessed with these pursuits:Playing and watching baseball and football and to a...

In a career retrospective talk at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, Mamoru Oshii spoke, if not regretfully, mournfully about “Angel’s Egg.” The legendary Japanese writer and director—who secured his place in animation history with “Ghost in the Shell”—said...

As temperatures drop, the promise of a guilty-pleasure thriller about a mysterious man who infiltrates a family with the intention of destroying its patriarch is an enticing invitation. With two episodes set on the shores of a Grecian vacation...

The Taylor Sheridan television empire can be marked by a few recurring themes: Western or neo-Western thematic architecture, casts stuffed with aging former A-listers cashing checks from Paramount to entice older viewers, and the crazy, atonal mix of prestige...