Waves of water and nostalgia wash over the drenched and drippy "The Finest Hours," a Norman Rockwell painting tossed into stormy CGI seas. The disaster drama, directed by Craig Gillespie ("Lars...

No one shows the landscape of human grief and trauma quite like Kenneth Lonergan. It sometimes seems like the playwright turned director of both "You Can Count On Me" and "Margaret" knows us...

Whit Stillman, one of our best chroniclers of the modern leisure class, has gone back to the 18th century in "Love & Friendship," an effervescent comedy about a deviously ambitious social...

As a young artist, Michael Jackson knew he wanted to be legendary. "I will be magic," he wrote as a teenager, outlining his plans for his career. "I will be better than every great actor roped in...

It's the sweet, romantic story of a first date - albeit the fictionalized first date of the couple who currently occupy the White House. "Southside With You," the feature film based on Barack...

In approaching a subject as sensitive as the Newtown, Connecticut shootings of December 14, 2012, in which 20 children and 6 educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, director Kim Snyder...

One major reason that young-adult fiction is so alluring - when done well - is that it gives youngsters such a fulfilling scenario of independence from those older adults in their lives who always...

With the same brand of silliness and a bit more creativity than the original, "Ride Along 2"doesn't pretend to be anything more than what it is: a sequel designed to offer a second helping of exactly...

There are cozy, innocuous pleasures to Nicholas Hytner's adaption of Alan Bennett's "The Lady in the Van," but chief among them is watching two grand old talents - Maggie Smith and Bennett, himself -...

"Son of Saul" doesn't just get under your skin - it goes straight to the bloodstream. There, it churns and festers as you try to make sense out of the senseless horror of the Holocaust and the plight...