Film

‘The Unbelievers’ follows two superstars of neo-atheism: Richard Dawkins and Larry Krauss.

John Anderson reviews “Dallas Buyers Club,” nominated for best picture in the weekend’s Academy Awards.

The most important news photographer of the 20th century was a Russian-Jewish immigrant clothing manufacturer from Dallas, Texas, who almost left his camera home on the day his life went crazy. Abraham Zapruder, whose half-minute film has fueled a half century of conspiracy theories, recorded a pres

Joseph Gordon Levitt’s ‘Don Jon’ is an Augustinian journey through cinematic excess.

Today, Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” received 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture.

Twenty years ago, traveling in Syria and Jordan with a faculty group, separated from my comrades, I wandered alone through the Palestinian refugee camp in Baga. Till then my concept of a “camp” was tents—scouts on an overnight trip, troops on bivouac—but this was a permanent

An American paratrooper leaps from a plane, descends through the hazy night sky and lands, unnoticed, directly on the backstage catwalk of a large, U.S.O.-style show. Onstage an Asian ventriloquist performs an expressionless routine before a sea of unmoved military brass with a distinctly Communist

‘You Will Be My Son’ raises morals issues that we could talk about for years.

‘The Lone Ranger’ touches on major themes in the mythology of the Wild West.

Superman is not Jesus. This, it seems, should be obvious. And yet this summer’s latest iteration of the beloved superhero takes pains to draw comparisons: In “Man of Steel” Superman, while embracing his mission as the aarth’s savior, mentions that he is 33 years old, which ju