The world was saddened Sunday night to learn of the death of “Heroes,” “Scream 4,” and “Nashville” star Hayden Panettiere at the age of 36. While the cause of death isn’t official, the Greenville ...

Though I have left Locarno, I haven’t finished writing about its many idiosyncratic offerings. The festival today announced its awards, including the recipient of the Golden Leopard (more on that in ...

In these dispatches I often talk about themes naturally arising or not arising at all between films. Well, the throughline between these trio of titles couldn’t be clearer: They all thoroughly ...

You rarely encounter features as tight (97 minutes), soft-spoken, and straightforward as “Union County,” a film about rural Ohio drug addicts in court-ordered rehabilitation. And when you do, they don ...

That pride is challenged by the very existence of a Green Lantern recruit by his side. In the premiere, Jordan puts Stewart through the motions, sending his car off the cliff so John will use the ring ...

In the opening minutes of “American Doctor,” filmmaker Poh Si Teng sits with Dr. Mark Perlmutter, a Jewish-American surgeon (one of three medical professionals this film will track), over photos of ...

Towards the end of Rian Johnson’s “Wake Up Dead Man,” Josh O’Connor’s Judd Duplenticy says of his suffering congregation, “And some got their miracle. Not being cured or fixed, but finding the ...

For the sake of disclosure, I’m the kind of fan of “The X-Files” who has already completed this, a LEGO set dedicated to fans of Chris Carter’s influential hit. (And, don’t worry, I bought it in time ...

There’s a special sauce in the art of the stoner comedy, flavoring its antics with a mirepoix of stoned pontifications, gleefully zooted dissociation, and pure euphoria. Combining the integral laissez ...

Since the Canadian “PAW Patrol” television series debuted in 2013, it has become one of the most lucrative franchises in the world, a powerhouse source of spin-offs, toys, games, t-shirts, backpacks, ...

We sometimes talk about how an actor portraying a real-life figure is “virtually unrecognizable” and “disappears into the role” thanks to makeup and hair and prosthetics and, most important, the tools ...

Sometimes you see a movie so dull, it’s a struggle to string words together about it. “The Birthday Party,” Miguel Ángel Jiménez’s meandering snooze fest, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival ...