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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...