A Strong Central Performance Grounds An Uneven 'Boulevard'
In his final dramatic role, Robin Williams plays a man who tries late in his life to find happiness.
Movies
Coming Back As A Better Slab Of Beef Isn't All It's Cracked Up To Be
Self/less is a dull rumination on familiar themes about body-swapping and life-swapping, exploring none of the actually provocative questions it raises.
A Documentarian Wonders: 'Do I Sound Gay?'
In a new documentary, a gay man tries to change the sound of his voice and wonders why, exactly, he thinks he should.
'Tangerine', A Teeny-Budget Comedy That Packs An Emotional Wallop
Sean Baker's bleak, boisterous farce follows two transgender sex workers on Christmas Eve in Los Angeles. David Edelstein says Tangerine is "brilliantly shaped, edited, scored and performed."
Guatemalan Ex-Dictator Rios Montt Found Mentally Unfit For Genocide Retrial
NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with documentary filmmaker Pamela Yates about Guatemalan ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who was declared mentally unfit for trial Tuesday by Guatemala's forensic authority.
Not All Sequels Are Equal: Following Up To 'Terminator', 'Magic Mike'
Film critic David Edelstein calls Terminator Genesys "strenuously witless" and "lousy." But, he adds, the loose and fun Magic Mike XXL is "anything but a typical machine-tooled sequel."
Documentary Seeks To Free Amy Winehouse From Her Tabloid Legacy
In the dawning of the digital age, "She was the unlucky one to be having a nervous breakdown in public at the time," Amy director Asif Kapadia tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.
Filmmaker And Speech Pathologist Weigh In On What It Means To 'Sound Gay'
In Do I Sound Gay?, director David Thorpe searches for the origin of the so-called "gay voice" and documents his own attempts (with speech pathologist Susan Sankin) to sound "less gay."
Examining The War On Mexican Drug Cartels, Through Film And Fiction
Two new works of art — the documentary film Cartel Land and the novel The Cartel — shine a light on the seemingly endless drug war in Mexico. John Powers says both works are bleak, but gripping.
Pop Culture Happy Hour, Small Batch Edition: 'Terminator Genisys'
Contributors Glen Weldon and Chris Klimek break down the latest in the many-tentacled franchise that continues to employ its indispensable central action hero.