‘Adagio’Stream it on Netflix.Manuel (Gianmarco Franchini) is in trouble. The corrupt police commissioner, Vasco (Adriano Giannini), is blackmailing Manuel, a 16-year-old, to infiltrate a drug-fueled party and engage in a sex act,...
Read more‘Inside Out 2’In the sequel to the Pixar charmer “Inside Out,” Riley (voiced by Kensington Tallman) develops a new range of (anthropomorphized) emotions like Anxiety (Maya Hawke) and Envy (Ayo Edebiri) when...
Read moreIn “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You can also...
Read moreThere’s a train wreck quality to most documentaries about cults, an invitation to crane your neck at weird rituals, bizarre leaders and peculiar anecdotes. By nature, cults are insular, inscrutable and strange...
Read moreIn the documentary “Brats,” Andrew McCarthy attempts to come to terms with being part of the Brat Pack, the group of young actors who were ascendant in ’80s movies. Turns out, many...
Read moreA thread of vulnerability weaves through “Brats,” the actor-director Andrew McCarthy’s new documentary. In it, McCarthy, the star of ’80s hits like “St. Elmo’s Fire” and “Pretty in Pink,” tries to make...
Read moreA superhero raises a baby monster in this animated film. But the action is dragged down by talky sequences about parental responsibility.
Read moreAlong with Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” scheduled for release this fall, Julia von Heinz’s “Treasure” is one of at least two dramas this year to follow the American descendants of Holocaust...
Read more“When I look at you, I see an old friend,” a voice croons over the credits of the delicate relationship drama “Summer Solstice.” Much like the film in which it features, the...
Read moreDavid Duchovny is hardly the first American novelist to find literary profundity in baseball — Bernard Malamud and Don DeLillo spring quickly to mind. Not just baseball as a thing itself —...
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