The proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to decide what to watch. Each month, we'll choose three...
There is very little Toronto in "The Man From Toronto". There's the iconic CN Tower, visible only in a distant...
"Down with the King" is the first film I've seen that confronts the Great Resignation, if not as a social...
When director Dean Fleischer Camp and his co-writer and star Jenny Slate made their first short film of "Marcel the...
Filmed in 2020 and 2021, "Endangered," the latest documentary from Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady ("Detropia"), explores a variety of...
In 1969, when abortion was illegal in Illinois, a clandestine operation sprung up in Chicago. Officially called the Women's Liberation...
One of Netflix's funniest sitcoms hits US subscribers in late July. If that doesn't cause enough distress, the streamer is...
In 1969, when abortion was illegal in Illinois, a clandestine operation sprung up in Chicago. Officially called the Women's Liberation...
Kurt Russell rotated the cold hip. Val Kilmer nailed the heartfelt and soulful vocals. And Michael Shannon…well, the credits identified...
Dr. Knowlton remained at Bell Labs until 1982, experimenting with everything from computer-generated music to technologies that allowed deaf people...
Because last month's picks took a deep dive into depravity, this time around I'm sticking (mostly) to low-gore, less scary...
Last name: Alton MasonAge: 24Hometown: PhoenixLives now: A hotel room on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, although he usually...
At a time of widespread debate over the portrayal of women in film, Japan's top animators have long created more...
Last name: Alton MasonAge: 24Hometown: PhoenixLives now: A hotel room on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, although he usually...
"Giannis: The Unlikely Rise of an NBA MVP", Mirin Fader's biography of Giannis Antetokounmpo, portrays the Greek-born basketball superstar as...
What's most striking about the autobiographical documentary "Beba," aside from the intimate lens and stunning cinematography, are its moments of...
When I was a kid, my sister and I had shelves full of carefully arranged miniatures, ceramic animals, and tiny,...
As a Presley biography, "Elvis" isn't particularly illuminating. The essential is there, as on Wikipedia. Elvis is haunted by the...
Completed in early 2021 and set in the previous decade, Elie Grappe's confident feature debut, "Olga," wasn't meant to be...
The future becomes the present in "Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe," the animated comedy directed by John Rice and...
Luis Buñuel is a filmmaker with few peers and a unique career trajectory. A die-hard surrealist in 1920s Paris and...
More touching than terrifying, Scott Derrickson's "Black Phone" is less a horror movie than a coming-of-age ghost story. Instead of...
Imagine what a world without diabetes would look like. A vast reduction in pain, suffering, unnecessary death. And, as a...
What if the first sensory objective of cooking was to stimulate the ears? What if you experience a movie through...
For many American teenagers, college is the great country to explore. But in the romantic comedy "Love & Gelato", Lina...
Drawing on visual archival material from the former Soviet Union and a mix of old and contemporary interviews, the tense...
"Disappearance at Clifton Hill" (2020)Stream it on Netflix and Hulu.Director Albert Shin builds on the dread from the first images...
That international stars Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas have never spent more than two minutes together on the big screen...
ROME — For a man who has spent nearly 50 years scaring movie audiences, Italian director Dario Argento is nothing...
In 1949, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno said that writing poetry after Auschwitz was "barbaric". The question underlying his statement...