The underdog comedy, which centers on a hard-partying woman who signs up for the New York City Marathon, proves that even a predictable plot can be hard to resist if it's well executed.
The film, about a wealthy clan who play a deadly game of hide-and-seek with a young woman (the fantastic Samara Weaving) marrying into the family, is fast, fun and not for the squeamish.
Fonda was born into Hollywood royalty as the son of Henry Fonda and brother of Jane Fonda. His 1969 classic, Easy Rider, earned him an Oscar nomination.
The release of the Little Women trailer caused a stir on social media. Fans are upset at the version released on Twitter because of its square format, which left out much of the surrounding scenes.
As many as 30,000 fans of the movie, The Shawshank Redemption, are flocking to the prison where it was shot in Mansfield, Ohio, for a 25th anniversary celebration of the movie.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette follows a brilliant architect who, in the midst of a decades-long career slump, disappears to recapture her life's passion in the unlikeliest place imaginable.
Coltrane recorded the album in New Jersey, at the admiring behest of a Québécois filmmaker named Gilles Groulx, who used it to score his docufictional film Le chat dans le sac.
Julio Castro's tale of two men who hook up in Barcelona, only to realize they'd shared a similar encounter 20 years before, is full of big ideas bogged down by "mushy drama."
What could have been a cringeworthy misfire of tweens fumbling toward sex instead turns into a winning comedy that gets the sweetness-to-raunch ratio miraculously right.
Film critic/Springsteen superfan Chris Klimek says Gurinder Chadha's film about a British-Pakistani kid who finds inspiration in The Boss's music is affected and cloying.
Conspiracy theories abound in this literally incredible documentary, in which an eccentric Danish journalist sets out to prove that Dag Hammarskjöld's 1961 plane crash was no accident.
Director Nanfu Wang, who grew up in rural China, has made a film about the painful, unintended consequences of the Chinese government's one-child rule — including how it affected her own family.
Hatidze Muratova lives in a remote area of Macedonia and has one simple rule: When you harvest honey, you take half — and leave the other half for the bees. An elegant new documentary tells her story.
NPR's Audie Cornish talks with writer Andrea Berloff about her directorial debut, The Kitchen. Before this, Berloff was best known for her screenplay for Straight Outta Compton.
From movie royalty to a junkyard to the world's preeminent movie museum — the last replica shark from the classic Jaws has been salvaged, restored and is as terrifying as ever.
Andrea Berloff adapts a comics miniseries about mob wives taking over their jailed husbands' rackets; it's at its best once the stilted, speechifying dialogue settles down, and the pulpiness kicks in.
A new documentary explores how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. Davis and director Maria Giese discuss the dramatic disparities on screen.
Pennebaker, who died Aug. 1, pioneered a cinéma vérité style of filmmaking in documentaries like Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back and The War Room. Originally broadcast in 1989.
Filmmaker Rodney Evans is still making movies, despite having lost much of his vision. His new documentary is about how he and three other blind or visually impaired artists continue to do their work.
