It takes a lot for a film to make me cry. I’ve sat stony-faced through all manner of tearjerkers and, while I’m a pretty emotional person generally, even the likes of The Way We Were and The Notebook ...

From “I was six when I first cried at the movies,” to “I cried when Renuka Shahane’s character died in Hum Aapke Hain Koun ,” all of us can recall an instance when a film left us in tears. After all, ...

Bringing a great crying scene to the big screen requires a combination of craft and empathy. This is how three recent movies — “Close,” “Babylon” and “The Woman King” — pulled it off. By Gabe Cohn ...