Category: Movies

Five Black Romantic Movies to Stream

For Valentine’s Day and Black History Month, watch these selections that brim with Black love, heartache and desire from across the diaspora.
Five Black Romantic Movies to Stream

For Valentine’s Day and Black History Month, watch these selections that brim with Black love, heartache and desire from across the diaspora.
In ‘The Taste of Things,’ the Food Was Prepared by the Actors

“The Taste of Things” didn’t use cooking doubles, but a pro offscreen helped guide the stars. Getting the meals right was everything to the director Tran Anh Hung.
Jonathan Majors Had History of Abuse in Relationships, Women Say

The actor denied physical abuse. Separately, he said he wasn’t told of accusations of misbehavior on the set of “Lovecraft Country.”
Academy Awards Announces New Oscar for Achievement in Casting

After decades of lobbying from the casting field, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is adding its first new award category since 2001.
‘The Monk and the Gun’ Review: A Satirical Fable in a Faraway Land

This feature follows two monks in Bhutan, often portrayed as a Shangri-La, as the country readies for its first democratic elections.
‘Here’ Review: A Celebration of Connection

In Bas Devos’s muted and luminous Belgian drama, two lonely souls repeatedly encounter each other.
‘Cobweb’ Review: A Film Within a Director’s Cinematic Ego Trip

Kim Jee-woon toys with the absurdity of filmmaking itself in this story of a director compelled to take his cast and crew captive to shoot one more scene.
‘Drift’ Review: Cynthia Erivo Keeps a Breakdown at Bay

Anthony Chen’s quiet character study follows a traumatized Liberian woman (Cynthia Erivo) on a Greek island who befriends an American tour guide (Alia Shawkat).
‘Out of Darkness’ Review: Prime Evil

A Stone Age tribe is hunted by an unseen entity in this wondrously atmospheric survival thriller, which unfolds in a fictional language.
‘Marmalade’ Review: Getting Out of a Jam

Joe Keery plays a seeming dupe in a crime movie that plays dumb, then tries to play smart, but only becomes dumber.
‘Molli and Max in the Future’ Review: Love, Interplanetary Style

This rom-com brings futuristic absurdity and nimble timing to a comfort-food story line of friends turned soul mates.