The driving force of Lone Star isn’t the suspense of discovery, but the moral weight of what’s already known—and what people choose to do with it.

An early draft of The Brother from Another Planet was titled The Brother Who Fell to Earth. But for a film released in 1984, starring Joe Morton as a three-toed runaway extraterrestrial slave who can’...

In Superbad, costumes draw attention to the undeveloped, sensitive, and altogether immature subjectivities of its characters.

Taken together, Almodóvar’s most recent films—Pain and Glory, Parallel Mothers, and The Room Next Door—solve one another, forming a sort of triptych about what it means to make art at the end of a lif...