Simultaneously vital and sepulchral, The Brutalist is monumental—grand, bold, and ambitious.

Francis Ford Coppola has one eye on the past and another on the future, blending old-school Hollywood epics with bombastic 21st-century hyperrealism.

Sir Robert the Bruce (a steely-eyed Chris Pine) fights to free Scotland from the despotic clutches of England’s King Edward I.

Perhaps no other film this year arrived with as much expectation and coverage as Nate Parker’s directorial debut.

A World War II opus and a humanistic look at those who often don’t make it into the history books.

In this sprawling historical drama, a solemn white man in the Confederate South (Matthew McConaughey) fights for his freedom and that of his black allies.

Set amid the stark beauty of the Jordanian Desert, director Naji Abu Nowar’s noteworthy debut film is a coming-of-age story steeped in Bedouin culture and the events of 1916. World War I is raging, and the Ottoman Empire is in a state of upheaval. Arab factions wage a revolution, and Great Britain defends its rights […]

Directed by Ava DuVernay Produced by Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner Written by Paul Webb Released by Paramount Pictures USA/UK. 127 min. Rated PG-13 With David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Carmen Ejogo, Giovanni Ribisi, Lorraine Toussaint, Common, Alessandro Nivola, Dylan Baker, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tim Roth, André Holland, Wendell Pierce, Corey Reynolds, […]