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Cantankerous and fiercely independent, the 80-year-old Grandma Wong (Tsai Chin) wants to live by herself in her Chinatown apartment in New York. Her son, Howard (Eddie Yu), wants her to...

After her tycoon father dies under frantic, fast-cutting circumstances (so much so that this movie’s opening minutes look like a trailer, or a parody of one), Lauren (Lily Collins) gets...

No seasoning wimps need show up in the enviable kitchen of Diana Kennedy, the famed cook and British expat who has devoted most of her life to chronicling and conquering...

The French director Bruno Dumont returns to the subject of his galvanic 2018 “Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc” in this not-quite-sequel. While the real-life Joan died at 19,...

The music business takes center stage in “Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl,” the appealingly candid documentary that finds the director Amy Goldstein working with her subject to show the financial...

“A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps” opens with testimonials from alumni of the U.S. volunteer mission. When they describe the “uncomfortable” conditions of Third World countries, the...

The title “Military Wives” is plain to the point of blandness. This good-hearted comedy-drama, starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan, deserves a little better. The movie is directed by...

In a real-life occurrence so serendipitous that it feels almost scripted, the perpetrator and the victim of an art crime become unexpected friends. In 2015, the Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova...

It’s a funny thing, Zooming with Spike Lee. He’s remote, confined within a box within a box on your computer screen, and yet somehow undiminished. Maybe it’s the look —...

In 1965, the American TV show Gilligan’s Island aired an episode titled “So Sorry, My Island Now.” It follows the show’s castaways as they encounter a Japanese soldier, or a...