Film
Timely and urgent, 'Happening' is a film that speaks to today's abortion debate
Based on an autobiographical novel by Annie Ernaux, Happening unfolds over several weeks in the life of Anne, a 23-year-old literature student in the French town of Angoulême, who discovers she's pregnant after a brief fling.
Alexander Skarsgård lost his voice — and found catharsis — as a Viking berserker
Stockholm-born actor Alexander Skarsgård says he had to work against his natural tendencies for his latest movie, The Northman, a violent epic set about 1,000 years ago.
'Navalny' documentary spotlights the Russian who dared to take on Putin
Made before the invasion of Ukraine, and titled simply Navalny, it offers intimate, sometimes amazing access to the bravery, and human cost, of opposing a despot.
Delia Ephron on surviving cancer and the defiance of falling in love in your 70s
Falling in love at 72 — over email — sounds like the plotline of a romantic comedy. But that's exactly what happened to writer Delia Ephron. Along with her late sister Nora Ephron, Delia co-wrote the '90s classic You've Got Mail. Against all odds, Delia found herself in a familiar cinematic situation.
There's a multiverse of roads not taken in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'
Justin Chang says for all its cosmic craziness, Everything Everywhere All at Once has a simple emotional message: It's about how the members of this immigrant family learn to cherish each other again.
Deeply felt and unpredictable, 'Pachinko' follows the epic rise of a Korean family
Chronicling a Korean family's difficult rise over 70 years, Pachinko offers a cornucopian narrative that's at once a multi-generational epic, an immigrant saga, a history lesson, a portrait of cultural bigotry, a high-class soap opera and a celebration of women's capacity to survive even the darkest circumstances.
'Cyrano' infuses an oft-told tale with disarming sincerity and operatic passion
Justin Chang reviews the latest version of the Cyrano de Bergerac which is a musical and stars Peter Dinklage.
'Kimi' is a pandemic-era thriller that's eerily keyed into our current moment
Justin Chang reviews Steven Soderbergh's new thriller about a Seattle tech worker with agoraphobia.
'The Worst Person in the World' takes millennial angst to an exquisite new level
At first glance, the commitment-phobic woman at the film's center may seem to embody stereotypes about people her age, but this perceptive Norwegian dramedy doesn't reduce her to those assumptions.
Guillermo del Toro says his future was set the first time he saw 'Frankenstein'
Del Toro's new movie, Nightmare Alley, is a film noir starring Bradley Cooper as a murderer who joins a traveling carnival, first as part of the crew, and then as part of a clairvoyant act. The Oscar-winning Mexican director talks about researching psychics, his feelings about mortality, and why he relates to Frankenstein's monster. Del Toro also directed The Shape of Water, the Hellboy movies and Pan's Labyrinth.