A watch. A painting. A chicken dinner. A snippet of conversation.

These and other everyday pieces of a life take on greater significance and heartbreaking meaning throughout the...

Worth his weight in goals, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known to the world solely by his moniker of Pelé, remains Brazil’s greatest sports hero and history’s most accomplished...

"17 Blocks," a documentary about 20 years in the life of a Washington, D.C. family, is so emotionally punishing that you might have to steel yourself at a couple of points...

Fern (Frances McDormand) is grieving a life that’s been ripped away from her. It seems like she was relatively happy in Empire, Nevada, one of those many...

The smooth, clockwork precision of the operation is at once stunning and terrifying.

A doctor selects an elderly patient who looks like a good candidate for guardianship: a...

Something is wrong with Renesha (Brittany S. Hall). An untouched glass of water is slipping between her relaxed hands. She doesn’t seem fully aware of the too-eager...

Edward Hall’s new adaptation of Noël Coward’s play Blithe Spirit is so aggressively un-funny it might make audiences unfamiliar with the script's successful track record wonder why...

The problem with "The Violent Heart" isn't that it goes too far, it's that it doesn't go far enough. Written and directed by Kerem Sanga, and unfolding in the type of desolate...

“Allen v. Farrow” concerns what happened to a seven-year-old girl, and her decision to talk about it decades later. “It has taken me a long time to reconcile that...

The heart wants what it wants, and sometimes what it most desires is an inanimate structure that’s secretly sentient and with more charisma than some of Hollywood’s insipid...