Film

Iconoclastic humorist Fran Lebowitz used to be known as a writer. Back in the late 1970s and '80s, she released two popular collections of essays featuring her cutting observations and opinions about life. But that part of her career was cut short by a decades-long case of writer's block — now she's known for talking. The Netflix series Pretend It's a City features Lebowitz in conversation with Martin Scorsese — who directed both the new series and the 2010 HBO documentary about Lebowitz, Public Speaking.

'Elizabeth Is Missing' is a new television film on PBS' Masterpiece channel that stars Glenda Jackson as a woman battling dementia.

It was a year when most of us stayed away from movie theaters, but it wasn't a year without movies. While the major studios largely set their sights on 2021 (and a few released their big titles on streaming services), it was an unsurprisingly terrific year for independent narrative films, feature-length documentaries and pictures of all types and genres from overseas.

Bassett plays world-renowned jazz saxophonist Dorothea Williams in Disney/Pixar's latest animated film. She talks about that role, as well as the challenges she's faced as a Black woman in Hollywood.

Boseman died of cancer in 2020, not long after he finished shooting this adaptation of August Wilson's play. His final screen performance — as a troubled trumpet player — ranks among his best.

Justin Chang reviews the new film 'Farwell Amor' which he says is sort of like the Rashomon of New York immigrant stories: It's deeply empathetic toward all three of its protagonists, giving each of them the same dramatic weight and bringing to light their specific struggles and anxieties.

Kate Winslet began her film career at the age of 17 in the film 'Heavenly Creatures'. She then co-starred in the blockbuster 'Titanic.' Now she stars in the same-sex love story set in the mid 1800's. She talks about how things have changed in her life, and for women in Hollywood since she started her career.

David Fincher's new film is a playful weave of fact and fiction as it reimagines the story of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz in the years that inspired the Hollywood masterpiece.

On the HBO series The Undoing, Hugh Grant stars opposite Nicole Kidman as a pediatric oncologist named Jonathan who seems, upon first glance, to be the perfect husband. Grant talks about going from playing rom-coms to darker roles.

In this endearing farce, Kristen Stewart plays a woman planning to meet her girlfriend's family and propose marriage. The problem? The girlfriend's never actually come out to her folks.

A new documentary reveals how corporate and government corruption led to the use of diluted disinfectants in Romanian hospitals. Collective is a gripping story that speaks to the present moment.

Steve McQueen has made searingly powerful films about historical injustice, from slavery in the American South to a 1981 hunger strike in a Northern Irish prison. But only now has he dramatized the experiences of Black women and men in the U.K., specifically the West Indian neighborhoods of London where he grew up

Justin Chang says Ammonite, the new film starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, is sort of like a British Brokeback Mountain, only a lot more explicit and with a much happier ending.

Champion, who died Oct. 21, danced with her husband Gower in the movie musicals Till the Clouds Roll By, Showboat and Lovely to Look At. Originally broadcast in 2001.

Guest interviewer Sam Sanders interviews Aaron Sorkin about his new film 'The Trial of the Chicago 7.'

'City Hall' is famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman's latest film.

Justin Chang reviews The Witches the new adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Anne Hathaway.

A brilliant young woman crashes the traditionally male world of chess in Netflix's seven-part miniseries based on Walter Tevis' addictive novel.

Justin Chang reviews the new film adapted from the lesser-known, but semi-autobiographical novel by Jack London.

Justin Chang reviews two new documentaries, one about President Trump's handling of the covid pandemic; and the other about the impact of incarceration on a family.