In “Coco,” memory doesn’t just summon up phantoms from the past, it reunites us with those we’ve lost.

The Freelings are ignorant of the sacrilege that made their luxurious life possible, but that doesn’t mean they’re innocent.

So much of growing up is learning what love really is. ‘Coraline’ reminds us what love is not.

“Let the Right One In” is about loneliness, the type society imposes on us and the type we impose on ourselves.

In “The Sixth Sense,” faith is both a sanctuary and a gateway to mystery and horror.

In ‘Wit,‘ Dr. Vivian Bearing uses her formidable intellect as a shield against her existential terror.

Popularity. Temptation. Vanity. Wearing Pink on Wednesdays.

This is what Peggy Sue learns: we all want a second chance at the past, but the real second chances only happen in the here and now.

The caricatured or fetishized images of sisters we often see in movies are a far cry from the real sisters I, and probably you, have known.

“Harlan County, USA” is an incredible piece of documentary filmmaking because it’s also an amazing portrait of courage and solidarity.