As this fight escalated, the conflict became about more than contraception or abortion. It revealed Americans’ views about ...

The film progresses to the city of Sacramento, where we follow our protagonists becoming more daring and violent, especially ...

Shakey Grounds is what I would call a “little movie.” The budget was small, the actors (except for a cameo by the always good ...

Eleanor the Great” is only 98 minutes, but feels longer. Scenes could have been tightened. Anguished dialogue might have been ...

“Comedy is difficult.” So said the great actor Matt Dillon, who once nailed a brilliant and side-splitting performance as the shady private investigator Pat Healy in the classic film, Something About ...

There are times when Cloud feels like it will do something surprising or compelling, only to do deliver something more mundane than expected. This Japanese thriller, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, ...

Hans Christian Andersen was speaking about his fairytales, in perfect Danish, on a street corner in Odense, Denmark. The small crowd that had gathered was enrapt, laughing and applauding. Then, ...

A new twist on an old premise for a movie can go a long way, and The Vile – directed by Majid Al-Ansari -- is evidence of that. The cultural flavorings in this thriller help elevate the plot as it ...

Over the course of a long career, British author Ian McEwan has forayed into a variety of literary genres. These range from historical fiction (Atonement) and espionage (The Innocent and Sweet Tooth) ...

Long before the launch of The European Correspondent, there were just two friends, one in Amsterdam, one in Basel, swapping news updates from their corners of the continent. As they traded headlines ...

Bdoor Mohammed is fantastic in her role. She’s able to shift emotional gears in her performance quickly and in a believable way. The betrayal and pain she feels in Khalid finding a new wife are ...

On one of these archipelagoes, a literary scholar named Thomas Metcalf searches through historical archives for a copy of a legendary poem, composed by a 20th-century poet, Francis Blundy, honoring ...