Pixar’s “Luca,” an Italian-set animated fairy tale concerning two young sea monsters exploring an unknown human world, offers the studio's hallmark visual splendor, yet fails to venture outside...

“Fatherhood” is based on Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love by Matthew Logelin. I have not read this book nor had I ever heard of...

"Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It," a documentary directed by Puerto Rican documentary filmmaker Mariem Pérez Riera, is a mash note...

It was the 1940s. My father, who was around 11 or 12, would walk along the railroad tracks between Elon, North Carolina and the neighboring town, Gibsonville, to...

As “Summer of 85” opens, our narrator, 16-year-old Alex (Félix Lefebvre) expresses an interest in death “with a capital D.” His voice sounds disinterested, which is the...

The very best documentaries manage to succeed profoundly as both art and education, but most really “pick a side,” so to speak. Some are far more engaged in...

Once one of the wildest of the wild men of cinema, director Abel Ferrara has settled down as he has gotten older. The man who loved to...

A soulful, uplifting, but also heartbreaking look at race and poverty's impact on troubled childhood, Alexandre Rockwell's "Sweet Thing" is a welcome return to form for the accomplished...

In the last few decades, films about adolescent girls in dark sexual situations have basically become their own genre, ushered in by the explosive release of Catherine Brieillat’s...

Don't let the bubbly energy of its opening scene fool you, "Sweat" is a character-driven drama with its fair share of cold, dark turns. With a story set in...