The new Netflix documentary chronicles an American icon's journey from self-serving prosecutor to social justice crusader.
Filmmaker Jed Rothstein and activist Dan David explore an epidemic of unchecked financial fraud.
Ava DuVernay’s film based on the Madeleine L’Engle novel might be described as "The Wizard of Oz" with physics.
Filmmaker Raoul Peck struggles to find tension in his look at the communist founder’s salad days.
Quietly, but emphatically, “Black Panther” portrays Africa as the cradle of human endeavor, from architecture and design to fashion and toolmaking.
This seems to be the fate of the genre now: It must relate and appeal to 21st century notions of class, race and gender.
The former president, the subject of two interviews and a new film within a month, emerges from seclusion and gives a peek at what’s to come.
The best movies of the year reflected the zeitgeist of America.
A few films this year show that beneath the mindless, crass commercialism of American moviemaking, a heart still beats.
Aki Kaurismäki delivers a minimalist portrait of an asylum-seeking refugee from Syria.
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