Girls Can Play

Judy Garland is at her soft-eyed, honey-voiced, urgently empathic best in this story of an upper-m...

In John Krasinski's second feature as a director, we've barely met Holland family matriarch Sally (Margo Martindale), her...

Considered one of the greatest boxers of all time, the Panamanian-born Roberto Duran punched so hard that he earned the nickname ...

The Interrupters will screen on August 19 for opening night of the Museum of the Moving Image’s Kartemquin Films  retrospective ;...

Florence Foster Jenkins was a mid-20th-century New York socialite who became known for her generosity to musicians and musical ...

Writer-director Sian Heder's Tallulah has an impressive set of genes on the matriarchal side. Heder was a writer and story e...

Part goofily spoofy turn-of-the-20th-century biopic, part hip-hop Spinal Tap with the absurdist knob up turned to 11, Pootie T...

A strenuously sold yet inert string of anecdotes from a nonfiction book about a high-stakes undercover DEA operation, Brad Furma...

Neither Heaven Nor Earth is screening tomorrow at the French Institute Alliance Française in New York City. Set among an encampm...

Parallels between the controversial self-styled doctor John R. Brinkley and Donald Trump pop up with startling frequency th...

One of Filmmaker Magazine 's “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2012, writer-director Penny Lane exudes a winning ...

The possibilities and limitations of art as a route to self-knowledge are on display in Call Me Applebroog , Beth B's gently inc...

Fresh out of film school, director Amy Heckerling hit the ground running in the early '80s. Her first feature, Fast Times at R...

The first, and maybe the best, of the many movies to transpose the plot of a Jane Austen novel (in this case, Emma ) to a modern...

“I know what you're thinking. I do. Who is this kid with the silver spoon in his mouth and why does he keep cooking heroin in...

Taika Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople is told from the point of view of a chubby, self-confident orphan, Ricky (Julian D...

In Lorene Scafaria's The Meddler , the recently widowed and adrift Marnie (Susan Sarandon) tries to fill the hole in her li...

Writer-director Mike Birbiglia condenses years of experience in live comedy into this smart, affectionate take on the rivalry, l...

There are a lot of surface similarities between The Family Fang and Arrested Development , another tragicomedy about an extrav...

Several characters make significant psychological progress in tonight's season finale of Girls , which begins and ends with H...

The first half of Girls ' two-part season finale includes several kinds of love: romantic, platonic, and that sparkly feeling...

If it had bigger stars and a less quirk-dependent plot, Rachel Tunnard's Adult Life Skills would be right at home at the multi...

Jenny Gage’s All This Panic is a somewhat meandering but engaging documentary about a handful of girls from a private high scho...

Made on the cheap by residents of the neighborhood it depicts, this shaggy pig story offers a lo-fi snapshot of Hyattsville, Mary...

Hannah (Lena Dunham) finally breaks up with Fran (Jake Lacy) in tonight's episode of Girls , but it doesn't register as d...

A third-generation filmmaker (his grandfather, Erik Løchen, was a well-known avant-garde director, and his parents both worked in ...

Because it's about the emotional lives of a group of young women, Lena Dunham's Girls is also very much about friendship—...

Last night's installment of Girls continues this season's run of eventful, emotionally revealing episodes, in which one o...

In James Napier Robertson's The Dark Horse , down-and-out former chess champ Genesis Potini (Cliff Curtis) finds a measure ...

This carefully respectful, sensitively acted biopic sands all the edges off Hank Williams’s story to create a frustratingly i...

The uncharacteristically tidy march that Girls' s main characters have been making toward maturity and relative happiness get...

Under the Shadow was screened in this year's New Directors New Films festival. Like an Iranian take on The Babadook , writ...

As she did in The 33 , director Patricia Riggen introduces Miracles from Heaven 's characters by establishing one domina...

Bob Nelson's The Confirmation is bookended by two confessions by eight-year-old Anthony (Jaeden Lieberher). In the first, ...

A nostalgic and deeply emotional tale, My Golden Days is Arnaud Desplechin’s second film about Paul Dedalus. Very loosely base...

Like a Jane Austen novel, Girls seems obsessed lately with pairing its main characters up with long-term mates, but the romance ...

Donald Cried was screened at this year's New Directors New Films festival. In this emotionally astute debut feature, Kris Av...

It's telling that several scenes from the fourth season of The Americans begin with Elizabeth (Keri Russell) or Philip (Matth...

Like Ali G and Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen's Nobby from The Brothers Grimsby is a human Rorschach blot, crafted to suss out esse...

This season of Girls has been partly about constructing a situation for each of the main characters that could presumably hold s...

Like most films set in battle zones, including many that were intended to be anti-war, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot glamorizes armed con...

The “white man!” cry of alarm directed at Ray (Alex Karpovsky) by a non-cisgender barista after he insults her, first by assuming...

The season-five premiere of Girls is a microcosm of the series as a whole. It mercilessly flays its four female leads and the m...

Stephen Hopkins's Race is a complication-smoothing take on Jesse Owens's elegant riposte to Hitler's racism at the...

The earliest known surviving feature directed by an African-American was probably a response to the racist Birth of a Nation . ...

A film about bipolar lovers who bring out the mania in one another, Touched With Fire is overheated yet oddly inert, constant...

Unlike other directors of the French New Wave, Jean Eustache didn’t glamorize his preening leading man, even though he said th...

With a great white shark of a grin and a maniacal laugh that's at once infectious and chilling, it's no wonder that Wal...

Sisters may be too formulaic to pose a challenge to the status quo and too silly to be mistaken for a manifesto, but it’s more t...

Here is Slant's list of the top 25 films of the year, which I contributed to. And here are my picks Top 10 Mad Max: Fu...