The Jessica Chastain vehicle "Ava" is not the movie you expect it to be, and that's the source of its weaknesses as well as its strengths. 

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Though it precedes “Small Axe: Lovers Rock” in Steve McQueen’s series, “Mangrove” follows it in this year’s New York Film Festival Main Slate premieres. This is...

“The whole world is watching!” This iconic chant from the protest movement of the ‘60s is featured multiple times in Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago...

No matter how far in the future, we already know the first two lines of James Comey's obituary. One will be about his decision as Director...

I don’t want to appear close-minded, or to alienate our younger readers, but I have to admit that I’ve seen a sufficient amount of dementia in my own...

“We’re not beautiful, we’re not ugly, we’re angry.”

That was the slogan of the Women's Liberation activists who set out to disrupt the Miss World pageant of 1970....

“Look into my eyes so you know what it’s like to live a life not knowing what a normal life’s like.”

Among its many cathartic functions, art provides...

In 2018, famous London-based restauranteur and cookbook author Yotam Ottolenghi was contacted by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art with an unusual proposal—create a display of elaborate...

A sort of “Marvel for Pre-Teens who Don’t Like Actual Superheroes,” the latest original offering from Disney Plus won’t make anywhere near as many headlines as “Hamilton”...

Fair-minded leniency is hard to come by when you’re judging a high-concept horror movie that’s as pokey as “Shortcut,” especially given its tentative similarities with “Jeepers Creepers...