Naturally, when you envision the ideal character to lead a romantic comedy-drama, you think of Jean-Luc Godard. Specifically, you call to mind that notoriously nebbishy charmer who in 1968 was so fortified with revolutionary fervor that he turned his back on the satirical, visually rapacious pop-art..

“Waiting for Godot” meets “Do the Right Thing” in “Pass Over,” director Spike Lee’s filmed version of Antoinette Nwandu’s electrifying play, which debuted in June 2017 at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre under the direction of Danya Taymor. The movie, shot on the Steppenwolf stage in September in...

Movie recommendations from critics Justin Chang and Kenneth Turan. Annihilation Natalie Portman plays a biologist who joins an all-female expedition into the heart of an environmental disaster zone in this eerily beautiful and hypnotically unsettling mind-bender from "Ex Machina" writer-director...

Brooding, beautifully made and drenched in atmosphere, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s knockout 1947 crime thriller/film noir “Quai des Orfèvres” is back in town. Originally released in the U.S. as “Jenny Lamour," “Quai” returns in a new 4K restoration with the soul-destroying shadows of its vintage Paris...

You’d think Taylor Swift had just posted a video of herself torching a Bible or dropping a flour sack full of puppies into the East River from the social media firestorm that erupted surrounding her latest release. Instead, it’s the “Reputation” singer and songwriter’s acoustic version of Earth,...

A handsome throwback to the golden age of British horror anthologies, the supernatural thriller “Ghost Stories” transforms a hit play into something surprisingly cinematic. Like the films it pays homage to, “Ghost Stories” is more classy than chilling; but each of its dark, twisty tales is smartly....