Film

My memories of reading The Giver in middle school are vivid, although not because of any particular effect the novel had on me. Lois Lowry’s 1993 novel has a famously ambiguous ending, and our assignment in 7th grade was to write a satisfying conclusion and share it with the class. Ms. Butler&

Rory Kennedy’s ‘Last Days in Vietnam’

In 1937, Paramount Pictures released “Make Way for Tomorrow,” a drama that documentarian Errol Morris once declared “the most depressing movie ever made, providing reassurance that everything will definitely end badly.” In it, an elderly couple (Victor Young, Beulah Bondi), l

Stark reality meets gentle whimsy. I’d like to think this is a characterization of the Irish temperament and the arts that flow from it; but whether or not that idea has any wider validity, it fits Calvary perfectly.Another offering from John Michael McDonagh, the writer-director who brought u

Richard Linklater’s journey through ‘Boyhood’

John P. McCarthy reviews Andrew Rossi’s ‘Ivory Tower,’ a documentary film on the uncertain future of American higher education.

There is nothing quite like a nun with a voice.This month, 50 years after Soeur Sourire, the Belgian singing sister, topped the charts with her pop hit “Dominique” (and received the dubious distinction two years later of being portrayed on screen by Debbie Reynolds), Sister Cristina Scuc

The film “Ida” is “less concerned with recounting the Holocaust than in absorbing its echoes.”

The biblical ambition of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’

“We’d like to applaud the filmmakers for raising reading levels, in an industry where dumbing-down is the business model.” Film critic John Anderson reviews ‘Divergent.’