One of the best films of the year, Margaret Brown's "Descendant" is, strictly speaking, about the discovery of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship. After it was used to illegally kidnap and...

Twenty-seven years ago, Ron Howard's "Apollo 13" saluted men with the right stuff — quiet courage and grace under pressure. This summer, he's returned to that magic number for a similar rescue...

Sometimes a title just doesn't help a movie. Not that directors Anthony and Joe Russo had much choice in titling "The Gray Man," their new Netflix spy thriller starring Ryan Gosling —...

Paul Gallico's 1958 novel "Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris," about a British cleaning lady with high couture dreams, wouldn't seem to have even a stitch of contemporary relevance. Yet Anthony Fabian's...

Aboard the speeding locomotive of "Bullet Train" ride at least five assassins, one venomous reptile (a snake on the train), countless glib Guy Ritchie-esque slo-mo action sequences, and one bucket-hat...

"Bodies Bodies Bodies " might just be the first great Gen Z thriller. In director Halina Reijn's film is a razor-sharp satire of a very specific kind of modern privilege set inside an escalating...

A boisterous extended clan gathers for a family holiday, launching the requisite arguments, hurt feelings, grudges, inside jokes, laughter, love, reconciliation and lots of eating, plus maybe a car...

Years before "Bridgerton" and the Regency-era fashion moment it helped inspire, director Emma Holly Jones was dreaming of an early 19th century romantic comedy with a diverse cast. Inspiration...

Female desire is not a topic that gets a lot of space in mainstream Hollywood movies. And the desire of women north of 45? Well, that's been almost exclusively the province of Nancy Meyers, Meryl...

The glow sticks. The neon lanyards. DJs playing wildly inappropriate songs. The mocktails, the tipsy grown-ups, the awkward adolescent kisses in photo booths. Finally, a feature film set on the...