Alison Gillmor

A young woman, an exclusive New York apartment building with a dark history, a satanic cult — this setup might sound familiar to horror aficionados, but Rosemary’s Baby this is not. They Will Kill You...

‘You can have a life of joy and hope and love,” says Agatha Bock, the somewhat reluctant star of this luminous, lovely documentary. “But it's not always easy.”

As with other contemporary retellings of classical texts (Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad, Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles, Pat Barker's

Protagonist finding her way in Montreal's creative milieu Canadian writer-director Chandler Levack is becoming an auteur of spiky, self-aware, semi-autobiographical nostalgia.

He was also a troubled man, his legacy marked by accusations of child sexual abuse. This new film — which starts in 1966 in his family's working-class home in Gary, Ind., and ends in a triumphant performance at Wembley Stadium in 1988 — is hoping the truth of that first statement will cover over the inconvenient realities of the second.

WHAT IT IS: A page from I Want My Hat Back, a 2011 picture book by Jon Klassen, the Winnipeg-born, Ontario-raised writer and illustrator who just won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, a Swedish prize for contributions to children's and young adult literature.

Something is rotten in the state of … well, almost everywhere these days, which might account for the recent rush of Hamlet adaptations, with an

There’s a certain kind of little British film that wants very much to be sweet and charming.

Delicate and devastating, this small Canadian drama starts with a voiceover narrative.

WHAT IT IS: Brown and Blacks in Reds, a 1957 painting by American artist Mark Rothko.