The avant-garde director, who died Sunday, changed our ideas of what cinema was and could be while showing us the old, lost New York.

After announcing his retirement from acting eight years ago, the performer returns in a drama directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis.

His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism back in 1949. A startling new documentary from Raoul Peck looks at Orwell’s life.

This year’s highlights include Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother,” the Italian documentary “Below the Clouds” and the epic “Magellan.”

The director, at the height of his powers, delivers a startling, present-day American epic, with Leonardo DiCaprio as a washed-up radical and doting dad.

This documentary by Mike Figgis about Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” is at once expansive and intimate, and sometimes very revealing.

The actor stars alongside America Ferrera in a high-tension drama from the director Paul Greengrass that revisits the deadly 2018 Camp Fire.

Though he got his start under the old studio system, he remained a natural in the New Hollywood and beyond.

A star since he was teenager, Hawke left our critic cold for several movies. But as he grew as an actor, his performances won her…

This cleareyed documentary looks at how Leni Riefenstahl, the director of the Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will,” tirelessly tried to rewrite history.