Girls Can Play

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...

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

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...

In  Permission,  Will (Dan Stevens) and Anna (Rebecca Hall) are a seemingly happy couple on the brink of marriage when a drunken...

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 ...

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