This charming film, starring Douglas Booth and Alison Pill, bridges the gap between Goethe’s novel and the adaptation’s modern New York City setting.
Category: Movies
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‘The Man in the White Van’ Review: Sleazy Rider
In this derivative thriller, set in the early 1970s, young women are stalked by an anonymous killer.
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‘Nickel Boys’ Review: Childhood’s Brutal End
This visually inventive adaptation of a Colson Whitehead novel follows two boys at an abusive school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
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‘Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’ Review: Side Quest
This anime adaptation, drawn from Tolkien’s appendices, focuses on a shield maiden, but mostly it serves as an excuse to revisit Middle-earth.
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‘Endless Summer Syndrome’ Review: Who’s Lying?
In this sun-dappled French psychological thriller, a lawyer receives a call accusing her husband of having an affair with one of their children.
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Sundance Film Festival Unveils a Lineup Heavy on Politics
The annual event also makes room for a remake of the musical “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and the return of Justin Lin.
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‘Maria’ Review: A Diva in Decline
Angelina Jolie plays the opera star Maria Callas in a movie that can’t figure her out.
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The Best Genre Movies of 2024
We look at the finest in science fiction, horror, action and international films, all available to stream.
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Nicole Kidman on Watching ‘Babygirl’ and the Loss of Her Mother
Between her experience on “Babygirl” and her mother’s death, the star has come to understand a lot about women in unfulfilled lives.
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‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ Score, a Noisy Gem, Will Arrive at Last
Fifty-one years after the smash horror movie, its groundbreaking and unconventional music — long a “holy grail” — will arrive on vinyl.
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How ‘Her Story,’ a Feminist Comedy, Came to Rule China’s Box Office
“Her Story” touches on sensitive topics in China, like censorship and gender inequality. But its humorous, nonconfrontational approach may have helped it pass censors.
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‘It’s Not Me’ Review: Entering the Mind of Leos Carax
This personal film is a dynamic, even chaotic, collage of moments that bring the director back to his beginnings.