Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi had been thinking about the concept behind " A Hero " long before he started making movies. In fact, the spark came before he even knew that he'd ever make a...

"If you've ever owned a slave, please raise your hand," Jeffery Robinson asks a live audience at the beginning of "Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America," a searing documentary based on a...

An American woman moves to Bucharest with her partner and begins to suspect she's being stalked in "Watcher," a stylish, unnerving thriller that premiered Friday at the Sundance Film...

Here are some good things about the fourth Hotel Transylvania movie: Kathryn Hahn, who is as evocative a voice actor as she is in live action; The monster sidekicks voiced by David Spade,...

Rarely have past and present mingled in a documentary the way they do in "Descendant," a nonfiction account of the last known ship to bring African captives to the American South for enslavement....

Twenty-six years after the original, "Scream" calls again. We're now up to the fifth film in the franchise, but the first since 2011's "Scream 4." Enough time has passed that this one, titled simply...

In the new Netflix movie " The Royal Treatment," the chief of staff for the prince of a fictional European country accidentally calls a run-down salon in the Bronx to schedule a haircut for His Royal...

Once upon a time there was a film that didn't know what it was. A romantic comedy? Perhaps. A period drama? A fairy tale? A tween fantasy mixed with royal intrigue? No matter. Producers threw a lot of...

When we last we saw George MacKay running, he was sprinting full-tilt across a World War I battlefield. In "1917," the British actor played a soldier tasked with delivering a message that a...

In Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi's films, reasonably straightforward set-ups — a divorce, a missing woman, a newly lent apartment — unspool such complex, cascading developments that it...