For a subject who is discerning yet unassuming, director/producers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine take a suitable approach.

Even if long stretches read like Wikipedia entries, I came away with a new appreciation for the merits of oysters and their farmers.

Karia's "Hamlet" locks us into the title character's racing, flailing mind. Ophelia can't break through, and neither can we.

Wow! Everything about this show works: performances, songs, costumes, sets, lighting, and sound. Treat yourself and see it if you can.

Writer/director Clint Bentley's sweeping frontier drama is romantic, but not regarding trains. (Planes fare better.)

For a movie with so much to chew on, Joachim Trier's feature moves with efficiency, finding moment after moment of gentle emotional truth.

"Little Trouble Girls" understands the power of a few days away when you're young and hopeful, even when that hope is bound to be dashed.

Amid a numbing drumbeat of discouraging news, this year's ads arrive as a welcome reminder that it is still possible to actually feel things.

Writer-director Rachel Wolther bets big on an implausible premise that "The French Italian" strains to sustain.

Those of us who grew up with the original Star Wars trilogy and collected the Kenner toy line remember how real those action figures felt compared to the images we caught only occasionally onscreen. N...

"My Sunshine" is a beautiful film. There's more below the surface, but writer/director Hiroshi Okuyama doesn't spell it out.

The story touches on grief, sexuality and male loneliness, but writer-director James Sweeney does those themes short shrift.

It's a good thing the story is true, because, sadly, this triumph over toxic masculinity would beggar belief if presented as fiction.

For all this movie's missed opportunities, it remains a watchable, often engaging movie about a guy who decided to make his own luck.

Would this film ever have been made if it was about homely people in Rochester, Minnesota?

The premise has potential, if the movie could build a world and stay there, but it's as if director Sophie Brooks and co-writer Molly Gordon keep getting distracted.

The frustration of "Daniela Forever" is that writer/director Nacho Vigalondo favors style over substance, failing to ground his characters.

The film brings one of the 20th century's most beloved figures, as portrayed by Max McLean, into living rooms wanting to welcome him.

The '80s still have surprising delights to be unearthed by curious listeners. Now, those listeners have one more guide to steer their ears.

The season is a relentless suspense machine, with more tension than fans have experienced since Darth Vader was freezing Han Solo.

Authentic Yorkshire language is foundational, establishing the girls' world and serving as a measure of how far they have traveled from it.

"You can’t provide what you don’t offer, so because Cady was being fake, she lost friends because she wasn’t being her real self.”

Shusterman leverages the unsettling sense amid pandemic precautions, some people were downright eager to let COVID romp.

Shusterman leverages the unsettling sense amid pandemic precautions, some people were downright eager to let COVID romp.

Canadians accommodated thousands of stranded airline passengers on 9/11. How did we thank them? With...this Tony-winning musical!

Johnny Carson was a born showman, we learn, but a calculating one: he had the discipline and charisma of a magician.

Think "The Goonies" in space, and if you think, they already did that and it was called "Explorers," you're going to appreciate this show.

It's increasingly difficult and expensive to raise a child in this country. Have our attitudes towards children fundamentally changed?