In Darkness tells an ethically complex story of Jews concealed under the streets of Poland.

In this chilly gray season, four new films that don’t do uplift.

In Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close becomes fear personified.

In the downcast, amazing world of A Separation, every single character comes up short in life.

Year-end films have it all: solemnity (War Horse), enchantment (We Bought a Zoo), and nervy tearjerking (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close).

Tinker, Tailor is no relic.

Apes in revolt, planets seriously out of alignment, silent stars, cowboys, and aliens.

What does it mean that the world ends again and again onscreen?

Curse you, Meryl Streep! You’ve won again.

Ralph Fiennes’s Coriolanus gets at the heart of the play and adds cinematic bloodshed.