What a dream it must be to be Marilyn Monroe, a starstruck assistant tells her. "Everyone would give their right arm to be you!" And we cringe, as we'll do many times during Andrew Dominik's...

Passion projects can go all sorts of wrong ways, but Lena Dunham has made something of a triumph in " Catherine Called Birdy," a medieval coming-of-age story that's part "Bridget Jones's Diary," part...

Brett Morgen's David Bowie documentary "Moonage Daydream " plunges into the mind of the rock star — it puts a ray gun to Bowie's head — and comes away with something that, at its best, is...

The question of worth flows through Ruben Östlund's " Triangle of Sadness," a handsomely grotesque satire about the guests and workers aboard a luxury yacht. The ideas might not be new, and the...

"Time is the thing," says Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) in Todd Fields' "Tár." Lydia, a world-renown conductor, is explaining her art as more than waving a baton around — not a...

A normal morning scene. Breakfast on the kitchen table. A newspaper rustles. A backpack is packed. The mother asks her teenage daughter if she'll be home later. "It's Tuesday, so, um, I'm going to go...

It is 1862 in a remote Irish village when an English nurse is called in by a local council to observe and investigate a phenomenon in the haunting new film " The Wonder." There is, she's told, an...

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 —...