“Race” is a movie about personal victory and national guilt—neither Hitler nor Franklin Roosevelt ever shook Owens’s hand.

While ostensibly a comedy, “The Lady in the Van” is also a profoundly serious movie.

Examine the meaning of truth in politics and broadcast news.

Stories of recovery and rebuilding

Two emotionally honest summer films

‘Aloft’ and ‘Sunshine Superman’ adopt a bird’s eye view.

Explorations of hell from Argentina and Ireland

‘Merchants of Doubt’ play scientists on TV.

The powerful message of ‘Selma’

The spiritual journeys in ‘Wild’ and ‘Exodus’