Girls Can Play

In 1970, fresh out of University of Texas law school,  Sarah Weddington  began work on Roe v. Wade, the case that three years later went to ...

Unshowy yet unshakably self-assured, sincere but with glimpses of a sly sense of humor, and unhesitatingly frank even about to...

A beautifully acted ensemble piece, Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows starts with a hyper-realistic introduction to a cozy world—a...

For me, contributing to Slant Magazine's list of the year's best TV shows is as much about the process as the result: It...

Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War , like his Oscar-winning Ida, highlights a traumatic period in Poland’s recent history, and how a br...

In the first episode of his Afrofuturist-ish HBO sketch show, creator, director, and star Terence Nance says Random Acts of Fl...

Based on the true story of a failed British expedition to find the Northwest Passage in the mid-19th century, The Terror exp...

Unlike Homeland , which is based on another Israeli TV series, Fauda makes no attempt to cover the political debates or socia...

This soulful soap operatic drama pays tribute to New York City’s ball culture of the 1980s. Painting in broad, dramatic strokes...

In films like Lovely and Amazing and Please Give , writer-director Nicole Holofcener's characters talk and talk, taking the ...

The finely tuned bullshit detector that keeps writer-director Andrew Bujalski's ego in check, nudging him to sprinkle ...

After moving in 2002 from his native Texas to New York City, where he soon became a member of the prestigious off-Broadway LABy...

Rob Reiner has acted in, written, produced, and directed almost every genre of film and TV show, but his wheelhouse is humane, sha...

Debra Granik's social-realist films, which are concerned with people living on the margins of mainstream American culture, are...

With a strong-featured, hyper-expressive face whose wide-set eyes don't appear to miss a thing and a joie de vivre that she...

Though she's a two-time Academy Award winner (for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs ), Jodie Foster has always been a ...

Less remarked on than the Me Too movement, but at least as important to the women of Hollywood, the unspoken rule that sidelined...

Yorkshire-born writer-director Andrew Haigh specializes in stories about ordinary people experiencing emotional tsunamis that upend ...

A latter-day neorealist working in the tradition of Roberto Rossellini and Robert Bresson, writer-director Laurent Cantet mixes prof...

Director Thomas Riedelsheimer, who documented some of English artist Andy Goldsworthy's work with naturally occurring mater...

In her 30 years as a film editor, Tatiana S. Riegel has cut five films for director Craig Gillespie, starting with 2007's L...

His 2018 Oscar nomination for Coco , which is up for best animated feature, is far from Lee Unkrich's first time at the awards...

Will (Dan Stevens) and Anna (Rebecca Hall) are a seemingly happy couple on the brink of marriage when a drunken comment makes t...

As Edith, the head of a dysfunctional household that almost certainly includes a murderer, Glenn Close twinkles with steadfast sel...

As the star of writer-director Jared Moshe's western The Ballad of Lefty Brown , Bill Pullman plays a sidekick turned leading ...

Here's Slant's list of the best films of 2017 , which I contributed to. And here are my top 10 picks and honorable me...

Here's Slant Magazine's list of the year's top 25 TV shows , which I contributed to. And here's my 10 top list, ...

Get Out' s central conceit, about a Stepford Wives -ish plot by blithely entitled suburban whites to colonize black people...

Except for some questions he's asked by interviewers and a few puny would-be rebuttals by smug debaters, whom he swats aw...

Daily Show alum John Oliver has surpassed his former boss as the nation’s premier journalist/advocate disguised as a comedian....

The Good Place is to a lot of its fans what its resident philosopher, Chidi (William Jackson Harper), is to bad-girl-trying-...

The first season of Master of None focused mainly on food-obsessed metrosexual Dev’s (Aziz Ansari) prototypically millennial a...

Tig Notaro’s traumedy is a dryly comic, deeply moving reimagining of the time in her life when she moved back home to Biloxi wh...

An extravagant beauty who delights in playing the fool, Michaela Coel plays Chewing Gum ’s main character, Tracey, with a near-i...

Michael Stuhlbarg was already beloved by fans and critics of New York theater, especially for his role as the childlike, mental...

After a five-year apprenticeship as a producer for the pioneering documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, Joe Berling...

Laurie Metcalf is a powerfully empathetic actress whose often comic and always ferocious intensity inspires an equally intense emp...

Writer-director Sean Baker’s brand of neo-neorealism focuses on people, like Tangerine ‘s fierce transsexual prostitute or Prince ...

Ozark delights in toying with our expectations. Its first big reveal is that the central characters, financial advisor Marty Byrd...

The fact that Making a Murderer was the most engrossing true crime story of 2015 no doubt helped build its enormous buzz, the nee...

Once again, The Queen ’s Peter Morgan combines extensive research with a highly empathetic understanding of human nature...

Her endearing eagerness to please, extreme social awkwardness, and hopeless inability to camouflage her feelings makes the semi-fi...

Read our  list of the 20 best shows created for Netflix so far --including my write-ups of Lady Dynamite , The Crown , Making a...

Lakeith Stanfield has been racking up standout performances in some of the most buzzed-about films of the past decade: as the gua...