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Kanye West’s October 11 visit to the White House displayed unforced conviviality mixed with mutual sincerity—a welcome change from the routine, stiff decorum of most summit gatherings. At this...

Religious films rarely receive critical acclaim these days, but a recent exception is Paul Schrader’s First Reformed—a combination character study, psychological drama, and social-activist thriller about a Dutch Reformed...

The most extraordinary image in any movie this century appears in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. It depicts the moment when Superman flies to rescue a child caught in...

Playing a middle-aged woman still remorseful about the teenage decision to give up her out-of-wedlock baby for adoption, Annette Bening’s quietly convincing and uniquely moving performance in Rodrigo Garcia’s...

Famous for the Oscar-winning movies Fargo and No Country for Old Men, the team of filmmaking brothers Joel and Ethan Coen are less well-known for their spiritual undertakings. Today’s...

By changing the title of the Rapunzel fairy tale to Tangled, the folks at Disney have found a perfect euphemism to represent today’s cultural confusion. But so many conflicting...

n The 3-D explosion in Hollywood may add depth to the screen, but Armond White argues that it subtracts from the movies. nn Out of real ideas, Hollywood is...

It’s always a good year at the movies, even if the great films can be counted on a few digits and never get mentioned at the Academy Awards. That’s...

[Note: The following is a review/essay on the movie musical Nine , which yesterday received only four 2010 Academy Award nominations, and failed to earn one of the ten...

It’s a sign of the times that Federico Fellini’s 1963 classic 8½ ”widely considered the best film ever made about filmmaking”has been remade in such a way that its...