Arts

Playing James Bond for the fourth time, Daniel Craig loses much of the vulnerability and dimension he once gave the character, while director Sam Mendes provides too much metacommentary on 007.

Sure, Charlie Brown is a little too cheerful, but in many ways, Charles Schulz's voice is maintained by his descendants in the Peanuts gang's first feature in 35 years.

A new film explores the life of Dalton Trumbo, who wrote films like Spartacus and Roman Holiday despite being blacklisted as a former Communist.

Former child actress Saoirse Ronan finds a fully adult role in the adaptation of the Colm Toibin novel about a woman conflicted over pursuing her dreams in America or returning to Ireland.

Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette are convincing as lifelong friends facing both good and bad together, even if the film feels ragged and too forcefully directed at times.

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Melissa Mathison has died at the age of 65. NPR's Mandalit del Barco offers a remembrance of the woman who wrote E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, among other films.

Most Americans don't know much about the small Middle Eastern country, much less its food. A new cookbook will surely pique your curiosity — and tempt your palate.

Women seeking the right to vote published the cookbooks both to raise funds for their cause — and as a strategic rebuttal to those who painted them as neglectful mothers and kitchen-hating harridans.