My Cousin Rachel
My Cousin Rachel exemplifies the period drama. In this case it's the 19th century and the dramatic Cornish coast of [...]
Red Sparrow
Take a Hollywood mega-star like Jennifer Lawrence and plop her into a sexually charged espionage caper in which she's a [...]
Codes of love
Sicilian Luca Guadagnino beautifully captures the implacable oneness of deep feelings in "Call Me By Your Name."
I, Tonya
An engrossing docudrama covers the life and times of one-time Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding.
Mudbound
Dee Rees' saga of white farmers eking out a living in the 1940s Mississippi Delta deserved greater acclaim.
Lucky
John Carroll Lynch's ode to veteran American actor Harry Dean Stanton is a small-town masterpiece.
Darkest Hour
Gary Oldman's portrayal of Winston Churchill is the bright, shining light in a film about England's time of woe.
The Post
Steven Spielberg effectively brings Katherine Graham and the volatile Pentagon Papers era to light, but takes few chances.
Creature comfort
A mousey cleaning woman and a monster become sentimentally entangled in Guillermo del Toro's magical "The Shape of Water."