Zain (Zain Al Rafeea), the Lebanese protagonist of this powerful, realistic drama about life in a Beirut ghetto, is a [...]

Actress Melissa McCarthy has never been one to shy away from playing unlikable characters. Her film breakout, in Paul Feig’s [...]

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who made “A Separation” in 2011, and “The Salesman” in 2016, both of which won the [...]

The “family” living together in one exceedingly crowded room consists of the grandmother, father, mother, adolescent son, and the mother’s [...]

Director Tim Wardle's “Three Identical Strangers” starts simply enough with the 1980 meeting of identical triplets who, until they are [...]

Skateboarding is the ostensible theme of this award-winning documentary by first-time director Bing Liu. And while the skateboarding scenes are [...]

You can't say Adam McKay isn't timed into the cynical zeitgeist that defines American political discourse. "Vice," which gets an [...]

The trailer markets “The Favourite” as British court farce, with clips of lavishly dressed scene-eaters. Ever-challenging director Yorgos Lanthimos, however, [...]

The latest in the “Rocky” franchise, “Creed II” is disappointing. One cause is the baggage of the prior, successful 2015 [...]

“If Beale Street Could Talk,” the James Baldwin tale of young lovers doomed by an unfair imprisonment of the young [...]

Films with a biographical slant are at their most poignant when the focus comes after the spotlight has faded. Bravo [...]

David Lynch is often labeled one of American cinema’s great surrealists, to the extent that the term “Lynchian” is now [...]