Film

The director talks with the staff writer Jelani Cobb about his influences and mentors, and how he made a vampire story “uniquely personal.”

Even a child is unlikely to be entertained by the film’s stream of Minecraft in-jokes—but fans of the director Jared Hess may find something else to excavate.

The novelist talks about Annie Proulx’s 1997 story about two young men who fall in love. “I didn’t want to just read it. I wanted to absorb this story in a more lasting way.”

This historical docufiction, directed by Lou Ye, boldly dramatizes the outbreak of COVID in China by way of its impact on a movie shoot.

Oscar who? The film critic, a true believer in the art of cinema, picks the winners of the most coveted award of all: the Brodys.

The culture editor picks three of the best erotic thrillers after being inspired to study the genre by his recent Profile of the director of the new film, “Babygirl.”

The actress talks with Michael Schulman about her time on “As the World Turns,” starring in Pedro Almodóvar’s first film in English, and why she hates when people call actors “brave.”

The actor talks with Adam Howard about playing a vampire hunter in Robert Eggers’s remake of “Nosferatu.” After hundreds of vampire movies, Eggers “wanted him to be scary again.”

Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s novel, starring Amy Adams, omits most of the protagonist’s inner life and shrinks the outer life, too.

The New Yorker’s critic on holiday-season films that he’s excited about. “These are not upbeat movies,” Chang admits, “but they are among the most thrilling that I’ve seen this year.”

The actress discusses starring in the new film adaptation of “The Piano Lesson,” Wilson’s play about the Great Migration and a family torn apart by inheritance.

The political maneuvering of cardinals gathered in the Vatican to choose a new Pope gives rise to fine performances but merely methodical drama.

A concept album based on a 1979 gang film is no big stretch for the creator of “Hamilton.”

Gabriel Sherman on “The Apprentice,” his coming-of-age film about Trump. There are “parts of the film that I could imagine Donald Trump liking,” Sherman says.

The director’s dark depictions of suburban yearning made him a titan of indie film. Why can’t he get his next movie made?

Susanna Fogel’s surprisingly jovial bio-pic about the whistle-blower Reality Winner fills a conventional format with patriotic outrage.

Like many celebrities nowadays, the rapper has tried to stage a comeback by flooding the Internet with content.

Viewers of the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion” know just how hard-won the pop superstar’s rumored comeback at the Olympics would be.

The actor and director, whose film “Horizon: An American Saga” has been in the making for decades, thinks of the Western as America’s Shakespeare.

Vittorio De Sica’s 1946 neorealist drama helped put Italian movies at the center of world cinema.