The “messiah” of the title is Fred Hampton, a Black Panther leader, orator, organizer and, in 1969, a 21-year-old murder victim at the hands of Chicago police.

“Nomadland” is the kind of movie that wins awards and no one ever watches it again. It’s cruel but true.

“Saint Maud” is the latest entrant in the religious-obsessives-are-the-craziest-people movie catalogue.

Have we seen the end of motion pictures as we knew them?

The last movie in his “Godfather” trilogy was critically eviscerated when it debuted, and “The Godfather: Coda, The Death of Michael Corleone” seems a last-ditch effort to redeem the film.

There is no way not to see “Mank” as a tale of self-destruction and professional suicide.

That “Chicago 7” is turning up on Netflix at this precise moment is no accident, the moment being serious.

“The Devil All the Time” is a story of fathers and sons, serial killers, religious frauds and fundamentalist lunatics.

“Copperfield” on the page or on the screen is a moral fable, the story of a boy growing into a moral man

‘Fatima,’ gives both the innocent faithful and the innocently faithless their due.