The best movies from this year were about family, both natural and improvised.

Nadine Labaki’s new film is set amid the supreme chaos of current-day Beirut.

The messages of “Mary” that can be applied to our own age are received early, and often.

There is a richness to “Roma” that will likely take multiple viewings to absorb. Every gesture is revealing; every image is a window.

The short but contentious reign of Queen Anne serves as a study of unbridled ambition and ruthless power.

In the “current climate” it has evidently become much easier to hate. But it has also easy to feel self-satisfied about doing the smallest amount of good.

Queen’s Freddie Mercury was pop’s most flamboyant performer—a closeted icon who rode a gay aesthetic to stardom.

Damien Chazelle’s "First Man" is a remarkably idiosyncratic movie, given the usual heroic/fantastic presentation on screen of space travel—or anything involving the heavens.

“A Star Is Born” is not only among the most self-reflective of Hollywood vehicles but the most resilient; when clichés work they are called conventions.

The film tells the story of Louie Zamperini, who spent 47 days at sea before being rescued, imprisoned and tortured by the Japanese.