Art is a lie that tells a truth, Pablo Picasso once said. The aphorism animates Pablo Larraín's canny and vigorous Neruda, a sidelong biopic of the preeminent Chile
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Even for a proud B movie, this is ridiculous: Gonzalo Lop?z-Gallego's The Hollow Point imagines a small town on the U.S.-Mexican border where the only Latino person
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I have a few thoughts on these Golden Globe nominations, including: In what world am I living where eight men are nominated for their film scores, and somehow not in
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Martin Scorsese opens his foreword to the latest edition of Shusaku Endo's Silence with a simple, impossible question: How do you tell the story of Christian fai
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I shouldn't have to explain why Fences, the August Wilson play set in the 1950s and now adapted for the screen, is important. If you've stepped anywhere near the the
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Incorporated comes on like the kind of TV show you think you have to pay close attention to. There's more consideration of climate change in the tense Syfy dysto
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Like Ava DuVernay's 13th, Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro travels a straight, well-researched path from the darkest tragedies of American history to the ones that p
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It's December, which means it's time to curl up in front of the TV in a fetal position and pray for 2017. Since this year has been Satan's masturbatory fantasy, we d
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Pablo Larraín is having a good year. The Chilean director, Oscar-nominated a few years ago for his 2012 political drama No, has just released Jackie, featuring a s
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Ian Olds' loose local-color thriller Burn Country works from the thesis that rural America is as complex and dangerous to justice-minded visitors as the most con
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The cussedness of La La Land is almost enough to recommend it. Damien Chazelle's sumptuous tribute to romantics trying to keep lit the fire of a guttering cultur
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In October, 200 coffee shops across the United States and Canada were made into Luke's Diner for a day to promote the new revival of Gilmore Girls. No special signin
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