Tag: Movies

More films shepherded by directors who grew up outside of the U.S. may be getting nominated for best picture these days, but those that go on to win the coveted ...

The architectural wonder of writer-director Brady Corbet’s 215-minute postwar immigrant epic “The Brutalist” astonishes onscreen. The ambitious spectacle, which follows László Toth (Adrien Brody) chasing his American Dream, only to ...

Warning: The following contains spoilers from the movie “Babygirl.” “Babygirl” opens on a breathy Romy (Nicole Kidman) riding her husband (Antonio Banderas), culminating in what appears to be a classic, ...

Folk music is something that’s mainly overheard in the elegant first stretch of the often lovely “A Complete Unknown” — it’s something happening the next room over, down the hallway, ...

Girls who grow up realizing they need to know how to fight don’t necessarily become boxers. But Flint, Mich., native Claressa Shields, for whom pugilism was a passion, entered the ...

Passion projects often are lauded simply for their passion, for the sheer effort it takes to bring a dream to life. Sometimes, that celebration of energy can obfuscate the real ...

Much of Edward Berger’s gripping papal thriller “Conclave” unfolds in the shadows. Alliances shift and break in dim stairwells, tense accusations fly in dark corridors and secrets are exposed in ...

Burt, the saltwater crocodile who rose to fame through the 1980s action comedy “Crocodile Dundee,” has died. The hot-tempered but cold-blooded animal actor, who was estimated to be about 90, ...

No two filmmakers travel the same path to their chosen profession. RaMell Ross has traveled one unlike that of almost anyone else to direct his lauded feature debut, “Nickel Boys.” ...

When Adam Pearson was young, he rubbed elbows with celebrities. “I was at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, one of the best pediatric institutes in the world,” he recalls of ...