You don’t expect to see security guards roaming the foyer of the Hannover State Opera, a well-regarded, midsize opera house in a midsize central Germany city.But before the Saturday premiere of “Echo...
Read more“No Other Land,” an audacious and devastating film, was also 2024’s most decorated documentary. It won dozens of awards from critics, juries and audiences on several continents; most of the major international...
Read more‘Abruptio’Rent or buy it on major platforms.Horror movies with puppets: It’s a nutty category with a better track record than you’d think, with “Magic” and “Saw” among its rewarding entries.But those films...
Read more‘Abruptio’Rent or buy it on major platforms.Horror movies with puppets: It’s a nutty category with a better track record than you’d think, with “Magic” and “Saw” among its rewarding entries.But those films...
Read moreIn 1969, the British comedy writer and performer Michael Palin, then building a career out of being extremely silly, did something utterly sensible: He quit his 40-cigarettes-a-day smoking habit and began keeping...
Read moreThe Malaysian authorities quietly presented the director Amanda Nell Eu with an ultimatum: They would submit her film “Tiger Stripes” to the 2024 Academy Awards only if scenes they deemed inappropriate were...
Read moreThe proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to choose what to watch. Each month, we’ll select three nonfiction films — classics, overlooked recent docs and more — that will...
Read moreThe Zucheros bring a great deal of imagination to the task, and the sheer audacity of the movie is enough to make it worth watching, even if, at times, the gadgets’ sentimental...
Read moreTo bet the farm, or not to bet the farm. That is the question in “Green and Gold,” something of a shaggy dog story “inspired by true events,” according to a title...
Read moreA lakeside getaway becomes a battleground for couples in this fast, furious and exceptionally fun horror-comedy.
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