This feature film shot in Lesotho is the small landlocked country’s first submission to the Oscars in the category of Best International Feature Film.

The 2020 nominees for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature showcase a wide array of topics, from the injustices of incarceration to the blossoming friendship between a man and an octopus.

Frederick Wiseman’s patient, deliberate lens into everyday life reveals glory in the mundane.

“Lady of Guadalupe” is not an episode of “Law & Order: Sacred Visions Unit,” or anything close, though it might inspire devotion to Our Lady.

“Francesco” dissolves much of the distance between the pope and the people of all faiths who embrace him.

Classic “nun movies” are awash in sentimentality and melodrama, barely scratching the surface of their protagonists’ inner lives. But Patricia Lawler Kenet writes that she could not get enough of them.