Last year, as movies conceived and shot during the COVID-19 pandemic began to be released, we saw a sudden influx of films rejoicing in the act of moviemaking and movie-watching. From Steven Spielberg ...

Jasneet Singh is a writer who finally has a platform to indulge in long rants about small moments on TV and film in overwhelming detail. With a literature background, she is drawn to the narrative ...

The focus of Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” may be small and limited — one Norwegian family struggling to connect and ...

If anybody could bring The Lovely Bones to the screen, Peter Jackson would seem a perfect fit. The director of the worldly Heavenly Creatures (teenage girls, murder) and the otherworldly Lord of the ...

There’s a push-pull dynamic coursing through the late-in-life romance “Lovely, Still” that keeps the film intriguing even when it looks like it’s going to sink into sentimentality. It’s probably the ...

Sitting through Peter Jackson's film of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones is an ordeal. I'm not talking about the subject. The book opens with the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl, so even a good ...