Celebrity Life

For her directorial debut, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes on a complex and daring narrative about motherhood and all that it can drain from a woman

Edgar Wright's new thriller, which premiered at the 78th Venice Film Festival, starts off seductively before taking an unfortunate turn

HBO casts Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac in a loosely gender-flipped remake of Ingmar Bergman's classic miniseries.

Denis Villeneuve directs Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya in a largely successful adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel, long considered unfilmable

From its controversial cover art to a baffling R. Kelly credit

It wasn’t a profound scene in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings that made me feel instantly connected to the film—not the Mandarin narration that opened the movie or even the early references to customs specific to Chinese culture like eating zhou, or congee, for breakfast and tomb-sweeping on the annual Qingming Festival.…

Shang-Chi wasn't always an obvious barrier breaker. The character's origin in the comics was mired in racist stereotypes

What does it mean to be a millennial? Bards of the generation across disciplines have varied takes: Taylor Swift’s catalog proposes a shared identity defined by a fixation on teenage heartbreak. Michaela Coel’s TV shows posit a tension between inner trauma and outward behavior. And Sally Rooney’s fiction suggests a reliance on the Internet and…

Oscar Isaac, the star of writer-director Paul Schrader’s ardent romantic drama The Card Counter—premiering at the 78th annual Venice Film Festival—is the matinee idol we barely deserve in our short-attention-span world, an era when we barely allow ourselves time to read a face or lose ourselves in a pair of eyes. Yet as soldier-turned-poker-ace William…

Movie stars, courtesans, spies, nuns: the aura of feminine mystery burns strong in all of them, but nuns may be the most enigmatic of all. Unless you’re among their ranks—and maybe even then—you can never really know them. When I was a Catholic school kid in the late 1960s and early ’70s, many of my…

Pedro Almodóvar's 23rd movie opened the 78th Venice Film Festival

If there’s a point to this exercise, it gets lost amid so many scenery-chomping reenactments of scenes we’ve seen replayed on the news and parodied in late-night comedy for more than two decades