I was fortunate enough this year to be at both Sundance and Cannes, so it was something like agony for me to watch the litany of critics and commentators who spent the summer and early fall ...

In a profile early this year, the novelist Dana Spiotta told the New York Times, “That’s seductive, being paid attention to.” Several of the films below — those that seduced me — feature pivotal ...

1. Knight of Cups: Terrence Malick is developing a new kind of cinema, a cinema of ecstasy, using voice-over rumination, snatches of conversation and striking images to depict the action of memory and ...

The American Film Institute selected their top 10 movies and TV shows of 2016, with blockbuster and critical favorites making the list. The picks were announced as part of the institute's yearly AFI ...

Netflix subscribers have just a few days left to stream a crime drama based on The Boston Marathon bombing, which fans have hailed as one of the best movies ever. Released in 2016, Patriots Day delves ...

When Steve Wildsmith told me my year-end roundup of the best movies of 2016 was due this week, I realized it was a lot easier to come up with movies I didn’t like than ones I did. Films like “Deadpool ...

This is one of those sci-fi thinkers that get better with a second or third viewing. Amy Adams gives a magnificently modulated performance as a linguist trying to map out a way to communicate with the ...