Béla Tarr's movies, by turns funny and heartbreaking, dignify human struggle with an uncommon tenacity of vision and empathy.

As the filmmakers, songwriters and actors tell it, their “wackadoo” concept evolved over nine years and eight versions of ...

Celebrated Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, known for unflinching contemplations of shared humanity films such as “Sátántangó” ...

From this vantage point, it is impossible to know how 2025 will be remembered. But it certainly seems like the very interesting times everyone is living through are reflected in a crop of films that ...

When he wasn’t on the clock as a convenience store clerk, Santi Ram Rai, 33, sang, raised his two young children and volunteered as a youth coordinator for an organization that helped the children of ...

Movies are the great escape. “Optimistic endings, passionate romances,” sings the incarcerated dreamer of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” who looks to old Hollywood movies as an oasis of beauty and faith.

Buffalo 8 has secured worldwide rights to “The World’s Happiest Man,” the Bhutanese-Nepali-American drama starring Oscar and Emmy nominee Bruce Dern. A trailer has been unveiled. Dern (“Nebraska,” ...

Barbie had everything it needed to go terribly wrong, especially since no one really knew what a live-action movie about a doll (even the most iconic one ever) was supposed to be. But the film shocked ...

Our film critics rank their 10 favorites of the year. By Manohla Dargis and Alissa Wilkinson Manohla Dargis It was another great year for the movies and another horrible, hair-on-fire year for the ...