This new production wisely resists that impulse. Executive producer Seth Rogen and his team clearly understand that the ...

So, a novel? A memoir? A chapbook? This is a book of poetry, with a plain tomato soup of a story within it. A can of Campbell ...

Add to those inarguably arresting sequences is the unique camera work. In the entire film, the camera neither tilts nor pans.

Guitarist-singer Boris Grebenschikov walks the streets of New York in 1988, narrating his origin story offscreen. Raised in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Boris formed a rock band, Aquarium, and ...

While not without its flaws, We Shall Not Be Moved (No nos moverán) is a great movie that does a magnificent job of blending comedy with drama. Mexico submitted it for Best International Film at the ...

In January 1979, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, fled the country following decades of ruling its citizens with an iron fist. After years of ...

We have always liked to think that comedy is secretly noble. Even when the jokes are crude or petty or plain bad, we cling to the idea that somewhere underneath the punchline is a tiny act of ...

Dead Man’s Wire seems the perfect picture for a United States where trust in core institutions is fading and a significant number of people viewed Luigi Mangione as a righteous vigilante. In case you ...

A familiar slogan has echoed through the streets of various Iranian cities in recent days: “Neither Gaza nor Lebanon, I sacrifice my life for Iran.” That phrase has been chanted at protests that have ...

“Life's greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.” That quote by Andre Breton, the author of the Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924, turned a good number of ...

Directed by Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent explores life under the watchful eyes of dictatorship. The film follows Armando Serranado (Wagner Moura), a former professor ...

The predawn U.S. military operation that spirited Nicolás Maduro and his wife out of Venezuela and into U.S. custody marks a watershed in hemispheric politics. In an operation that lasted just over ...