Film-Forward

This is Almodóvar in full melodrama mode. His trademark humor is all but absent.

Naples is as important to this semi-autobiographical film as its characters and events. It’s where the sacred and the profane collide.

In some ways, this is the best of times for a film buff, with new selections more readily accessible than they ever have been, either in theaters or online.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi has masterfully and thrillingly expanded Haruki Murakami’s typically spare and evocative short story into a three-hour feature.

What film noir—which this still is even though it is shot in color, and heavy on garish reds—has a 150-minute running time?

Mike Mills’s big heart is his greatest strength, but also his greatest weakness, both of which are on display in his new film.

Director Bruno Dumont casts vivacious French star Léa Seydoux as a news anchor who comes to terms with fame and a chaotic life in a narrative that borrows from classic women’s pictures with their twists and turns.

The one individual who has the largest imprint on this 21st-century retelling is its screenwriter, Tony Kushner, more so than its director, Steven Spielberg. 

A convent becomes the site of a reported demonic possession.