Girls Can Play

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...

A master of side-eye, Aubrey Plaza became, in her own words, “a poster child for irony” for playing such worldly, antiauthoritar...

After a long but largely uncelebrated career that consisted mainly of minor roles as moms and authority figures in such films as...

“Server Error,” the season-four finale of Silicon Valley , checks in with almost all the main characters in Pied Piper's or...

Kumail Nanjiani was following a well-trodden path when he came to the United States from Karachi for college, majoring in computer...

The Pied Piper team’s slow-boiling crisis of faith in Richard’s (Thomas Middleditch) leadership, which has been coming...

Eager to pass on his hard-won wisdom, whether anyone wants it or not, Richard (Thomas Middleditch) tells Keenan Feldspar (Haley...

On Silicon Valley , good things come to those who do nothing in particular, and what appears at first to be a stroke of good lu...

Tonight's episode of Silicon Valley starts with the Pied Piper team squirming under the imperious glare of their last inve...

Tonight’s episode probes the disconnect between worthiness and success in a world where sizzle almost always trumps substance. ...

Taking up where “Intellectual Property” left off, tonight's episode of Silicon Valley opens on Richard (Thomas Middleditch...

Much as Americans love reality television, we tend to shun documentaries, especially issue-based ones, probably because many of...

After he acted with Diane Lane in her first film, 1979's A Little Romance , Laurence Olivier called the then-14-year-old “the ...

Tonight's episode of Silicon Valley takes a satiric look at some of the ways that the all-important yet elusive concept of...

The son of avant-garde pioneers Ken and Flo Jacobs, Azazel Jacobs has the most conventional career in his family. He's still f...

In this week's episode of Silicon Valley , Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) takes about a minute to transition from underdog to ove...

Thanks in part to his hard body, soft eyes, and a formerly broken nose that gives him almost as distinctive a profile as Javier Ba...

When Mae (Emma Watson) gets a chance to work at The Circle, a fictional tech behemoth, she's so thrilled at the t...

Richard (Thomas Middleditch) bumbles his way to an unlikely victory at the start of the season premiere of Silicon Valley , posin...

There's no dialogue in Julian Rosenfeldt's Manifesto , just recitations of manifestos about art—plus the excerpt from Karl...

Skipping lightly across the surface of relationships and individual states of mind to focus on the stockpiling of weapons or the ...

Aside from the armored walker that Rick (Andrew Lincoln) fought in the junkyard where Jadis's people live, it's been mont...

Throughout six years on Girls , a dozen years' worth of indie films before that, and the run of sometimes higher-profile films...