Ava DuVernay's "13th," a documentary about mass incarceration of African Americans nominated for an Oscar, is full of good words and bad images.

Thanks to the arcane rules behind the foreign-language Oscar, sentimentality usually reigns supreme.

Martin Scorsese's new film will be elusive to the many and beloved by the few.

Plenty of movies make you think. Far fewer allow you to think, which is something rather different. Take “Manchester by the Sea.”

“Loving” is film about a lot of things, including two simple people causing violent eruptions across the social and legal landscapes. It is a portrait of America at a particular time and place. So is "Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk."

For all Stone’s posturing as a filmmaking maverick, “Snowden” relies on every manner of movie convention and emotional shortcut.

It is hard to say that anything on the small screen has surpassed “Dekalog” since it first aired in 1989.

Among one group of nuns at the end of World War II, the shadow of the cross is impossible to escape.

"Finding Dory” might be a more interesting movie than “Nemo” without being any better.

A convergence of belief and fact; this is the key to two new films about Jesus.