India Bans Award-Winning Indian Film For Being Too 'Lady-Orientated'
The movie is 'Lipstick Under My Burkha.' It won a prize at the Mumbai Film Festival — but was deemed not appropriate for Indian audiences.
Movies
'Sense Of An Ending' Lacks The Punch Of The Prize-Winning Novel It's Based On
The film tells the story of an emotionally shut-down man who gradually learns that the events of his past are not as he remembers. David Edelstein says the movie, unlike the book, is a "non-event."
Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Get Out' and 'The Americans'
It's a week of high tension as the team welcomes Gene Demby and Kat Chow of NPR's Code Switch team to talk about 'Get Out' and the return of 'The Americans.'
Paranormal Activity Meets Profound Grief In 'Personal Shopper'
Olivier Assayas' chilling new film features Kristen Stewart as a medium who is trying to contact her dead twin. Critic Justin Chang calls it "moody, baffling and altogether entrancing."
In The Forgettable 'Kong: Skull Island,' A Great Cast, Cast Aside
Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly, John Goodman and Samuel L. Jackson help ensure that this mediocre creature feature is "no chore to sit through," says critic Chris Klimek.
An Unexamined Life, Examined And Re-Examined: 'The Sense Of An Ending'
An unsparing, unsentimental Julian Barnes novel gets a straightforward treatment — and a tacked-on, falsely redemptive ending — in Ritesh Batra's film.
A Revisionist Western With A Vision That's Oppressively Brutal: 'Brimstone'
Dutch writer-director Martin Koolhoven's bleak, four-part, 149-minute tale, which features Guy Pearce as a sadistic preacher in the Old West, proves "rigorously unpleasant," says critic Scott Tobias.
'Raw' Is Not Well Done
French writer-director Julia Ducournau's debut feature, about a vegetarian veterinary student who develops a taste for viscera, "is as tiresome as it is scandalous," says critic Mark Jenkins.
Hollywood's Favorite Giant Ape Returns In 'Kong: Skull Island'
In Kong: Skull Island, Hollywood's favorite giant ape returns to theaters, this time befriending Brie Larson and annoying John Goodman.
'Monsieur Mayonnaise': The Sandwich King Who Saved Jewish Children From Nazis
For years, Philippe Mora wondered how his father earned this nickname. A new documentary reveals the answer: He slathered passports in mayo and hid them in messy, hard-to-inspect baguettes.