Kelly Vance

A few highlights from “French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light,” a rewarding ongoing retrospective series that runs through Aug. 28 at the...

In the first five minutes of the new Hong Kong/China action pic The Furious, we’re reminded of one of the time-tested truths of the...

Amy Goodman travels to places many of us are afraid to venture. She walked the chemical-dust-clouded streets of Lower Manhattan during the 9/11 World...

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is some degree of masterpiece The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a fine excuse to study the workings of power in the U.S....

And fun at the ball game: A double header of Master Gardener and It Ain’t Over Paul Schrader is one of the most important filmmakers...

‘Babylon’ discovers new depths in obnoxious filmmaking Slowly, steadily, almost imperceptibly, standards for commercial motion picture entertainment—particularly in screenwriting—have been slipping, right before everyone’s eyes....

After the pandemic descended on us two years ago, we did without a number of public events that had meaning for us in the...

Feel-good movies need to have at least one moment, or one character, that genuinely brightens up the experience of watching them, so that we...