“Brooklyn” vividly portrays the extreme homesickness of a young woman in a strange land.

“Race” is a movie about personal victory and national guilt—neither Hitler nor Franklin Roosevelt ever shook Owens’s hand.

While ostensibly a comedy, “The Lady in the Van” is also a profoundly serious movie.

What gives “Room” its originality and power is its vision of a mother and a child literally clinging together to each in a situation beyond our imagining.

Mercy, sin and ‘Star Wars’

“Spotlight,” in theaters nationwide, is a sensitive exploration of the ravages of sexual abuse upon an entire community.