For his third outing as Hercule Poirot, Kenneth Branagh, together with screenwriter Michael Green, made the shrewd decision to select one of Agatha Christie’s l...
Padre Pio was, by all accounts, a remarkable man. Born in 1887, he lived to be 81, serving for many decades as a Franciscan friar before being canonized by the ...
Paul Schrader has built a long and distinguished career on occupational metaphors. Taxi drivers, American gigolos, card counters— characters who represent somet...
Women Talking may be the most accurately titled film to be released this year. Written and directed by Sarah Polley from a novel by Miriam Toews, the movie is e...
Living, an English-language reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru, does not attempt to improve on the original, nor does it tamper with its wisdom about what it...
Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO lands like a defibrillator to the chest, a jolting and immediate dose of cinematic verve designed to shock the stupefied viewer out of co...
As artists grow older, their vision expands, or at least changes. Walter Hill’s has pretty much stayed the same. Now at the ripe old age of 80, Hill has once ag...
Ever since his 1997 Sundance smash In the Company of Men, Neil LaBute has found a multitude of ways to express man’s anxious fear of the females in our species....
Among our most primal fears—of the dark, of extreme weather, of public speaking—it’s the fear of falling that most commonly haunts our nightmares. The corny yet...
In Resurrection, Rebecca Hall plays Margaret, a successful career woman with a stable job at a growing biotech company whose life is interrupted when a figure f...
