Film-Forward

An exception to the rule that films limited mainly to one location can feel stagey and stifling.

One of the year’s most intense and unclassifiable thrillers.

Barry Avrich’s intense documentary is structured like a thrilling action flick, a real-life version of revenge movies.

If you told me I could be moved by a documentary about mathematics, I would have told you to check yourself for a fever.

Previous Paul Thomas Anderson films are remarkable for the way they elude easy definition, but here, everything is exactly as it seems.

Viewers who don’t follow the news or who still think of libraries as antiquated, dusty bookshelves will find this documentary illuminating and disturbing.

Not since Benji has a dog actor—or dogter, if you will—managed such a range of emotion and vulnerability.

Raoul Peck skillfully blends a portrait of the British writer George Orwell with a chilling look at the autocratic movements emerging around the world.

It’s exciting to see Julia Roberts tackle a complicated, prickly character after being pigeonholed with the trivial moniker “America’s Sweetheart” in the past.