Films portraying characters with mental illness are a common occurrence. While often clumsy in such portrayals in the past, writers and directors have, on the whole, gotten better over time [...]

The deplorable history of slavery in the United States has been the focus of many films over the years. The films have been of varying quality, and there have also [...]

Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes pays tribute to the cinema in Empire of Light, a film of lofty themes that doesn't necessarily ring true or capture the depth that it's aiming [...]

At first glance, radio doesn’t seem to be the most dynamic world to base a film in. It’s a world of stationary voices, with images filled in by the listener’s [...]

Ticket to Paradise is one of the broad romantic comedies we have all seen before. You know the kind like 50 First Dates, Couples Retreat, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall where [...]

With miscalculated dry humor and unfunny banter that delivers so much low energy, filmmaker Lena Dunham burns through her biggest budget to date on her well-intentioned medieval satire titled Catherine [...]

Five-time Oscar nominated and problematic filmmaker David O. Russell promotes love, art, peace, and combats fascism in a web of conspiracy in his ninth feature (10 if you count Accidental [...]

Exorcism stories are nothing new in horror. Neither are 1980s period pieces. But sometimes even well-trod ground can be combined to create something special. Such was the case in 2016 [...]