Our film critics rank their 10 favorites of the year.

The ?Five Nights at Freddy?s? and ?I Love L.A.? star found instant success as a child actor. After his ?Hunger Games? fame, it felt like it almost all went away.

Noah Baumbach?s latest film has George Clooney playing the last of the old-school movie stars.

Gary Goldman, who has battled Disney in court over the franchise, thinks the viper Gary De?Snake is based on him.

The filmmaker Chloé Zhao and the novelist-turned-screenwriter Maggie O?Farrell explained the changes they made in the tale of Shakespeare, his wife and their son.

From timeless classics to frothy distractions, we?ve picked the best holiday romances currently available to stream.

Despite awareness of taboos, two girls in a Catholic school choir are drawn to each other in this feature debut by the Slovenian director Urska Djukic.

Whether you?re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

To tell the story of the demonstrations surrounding a World Trade Organization meeting, ?WTO/99? assembled scenes shot by the participants themselves.

?I have to be still for a certain amount of time,? says the ?Wicked? star and author of ?Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They?re Too Much.?

Frenzied bidding pushed the polarizing F.P. Journe timepiece into near-record territory despite one dealer calling the design ?goofy.?

The actress and director says the world of filmmaking needs a ?full system break.?

Through trinkets and tales, a U.F.O. story that once captured national attention lives on.

This month?s movies include cosmopolitan assassins, flesh-slicing swashbucklers and seasoned supernatural detectives.

WildeHopps, a.k.a. the fox and bunny at the heart of the franchise, has inspired a YouTube movie, TikToks, fancams and more. The obsession goes deep (and sometimes weird).

Before returning to New York to lead Roundabout, Christopher Ashley is concluding his 18-year tenure at La Jolla Playhouse with the new musical ?Working Girl.?

For one writer, putting together her annual roundup of streaming holiday movies requires open-mindedness ? and a high tolerance for candy-coated clichés.

The actor, born in Japan, starred in dozens of film and television shows, including Amazon?s ?The Man in the High Castle.? His career spanned more than three decades.

The deal to acquire the Hollywood behemoth?s television and film studios as well as HBO Max will bulk up the world?s biggest paid streaming service.

The bigger-budget follow-up to last year?s abysmal cult horror hit about haunted animatronic puppets is, at best, marginally scarier.

The director reunites with Toni Servillo, casting the astonishingly expressive actor as a fictional Italian president facing the end of his term.

The Tony-winning Broadway revival of the notorious Stephen Sondheim flop, starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, gets a live stage recording for the big screen.

In this drama, Lucy Liu offers a compassionate and grim portrait of a parent at the end of her rope.

In Scandar Copti?s film, set in Haifa, Israel, secrets and deceptions strain relationships.

Clever sight gags jazz up this ?Downton Abbey? sendup about a bookish aristocrat under pressure to marry her first cousin.

Two filmmaking brothers trade tales in a tonally singular documentary.

Kristen Stewart?s feature directing debut stars a riveting Imogen Poots in an uncomfortably visceral tale of abuse and addiction.

This flawed but endearing film stars Emma Corrin as a protective maid and features Charli XCX as a sister with a secret.

From ?Oh. What. Fun.? to ?A Very Jonas Christmas Movie,? a roundup of several new holiday titles to stream this season.

?One Battle After Another,? ?Sinners,? ?Hamnet,? ?Marty Supreme? and ?Sentimental Value? are almost certain to be nominated. After that, it?s anyone?s guess.

The Broadway revival, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, was transformative. Here?s what to know about the show, and the movie.

It was all roast beef, chocolate cake and air kisses at the Gotham Awards in Lower Manhattan.

Films that take their stories from the Old or New Testament are filling screens big and small. To understand why, it helps to know Hollywood history.

How one era changed everything about the culture ? and why we?re so nostalgic for its creations.

He won best director, original screenplay and international feature for ?It Was Just an Accident.? Best feature went to ?One Battle After Another.?

A new documentary contains zesty character studies of competing New York City tree vendors as they prepare for the holiday season.

?F1: The Movie,? ?It?s Never Over, Jeff Buckley? and ?The Life of Chuck? arrive, and ?Fallout? and ?Percy Jackson? return.

A slew of new titles are coming this month, including the latest ?Knives Out? mystery and a film starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler.

Joe Mantello will direct the next revival of Arthur Miller?s ?Death of a Salesman,? opening in April at the Winter Garden Theater.

His tales of violence and squalor in his native Ozarks had the timeless quality of fables and inspired several movies.

The playwright won an Academy Award for ?Shakespeare in Love.? But he was also a prolific script doctor who worked with filmmakers like Steven Spielberg.

For generations of Algerians, the fierce independence of her persona reflected their struggles in a country torn by civil war and repression.

Spinning off Shakespeare, waltzing through Imperial Russia, bantering about literature or diving deeply into history, Stoppard shared his gifts on the screen.

Nobody advanced or cherished the English language more than Stoppard, Tim Curry noted. Colleagues and fans agreed.

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