A Hidden Life
By Kent Turner December 12, 2019
Not since The Sound of Music have the Austrian Alps been such scene stealers. The dramatic, mountain landscapes are the go-to visual motifs in Terrence Malick’s new meandering movie.
Not since The Sound of Music have the Austrian Alps been such scene stealers. The dramatic, mountain landscapes are the go-to visual motifs in Terrence Malick’s new meandering movie.
Shia LaBeouf wrote and stars in this autobiography, and it wants you to know it.
Any filmmaker who accepts the task of translating Harriet Tubman’s life into film is faced with a wealth of riches and immense challenges.
Inventor Thomas Edison, mogul George Westinghouse, and Serbian visionary Nikolai Tesla headline the competition to be the first in bringing electrical power to America.
A meditation on the outrageous story of Silvio Berlusconi, the wily one-time cruise ship crooner who rose to the center of Italian life and reigned for decades.
Renée Zellweger headlines this Judy Garland biopic, as the singer/actress in the twilight of her career.
A writer’s interior life is notoriously difficult to visualize on screen, and this biopic is no exception.
Is there room for another film about honor killings? Director Sherry Hormann answers with a yes in her brisk, beat-by-beat depiction of the 2005 murder in Berlin of Hatun “Aynur” Surucu, 23, by her youngest brother.
Writer/director Adam McKay’s entertaining and irreverent account of Dick Cheney’s political and personal saga.