Alissa Wilkinson

“Fanatical,” an eye-popping film directed by Erin Lee Carr, details the bizarre 16-year ordeal that the duo and their fans endured.

The answer has to do with going beyond a likeness, something Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong understand for their movie about Donald Trump and Roy Cohn.

Mati Diop examines the fate of 26 treasures — sometimes from their point of view — looted from Benin in 1892.

A passionate and propulsive documentary about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba spins its web in many directions.

Steve McQueen’s World War II drama may appear conventional on the surface, but don’t miss what it’s really doing.

“Martha,” from R.J. Cutler, argues that she was ahead of her time. But though she sits for a lengthy interview, this isn’t hagiography.

World War II is almost certainly the big screen's most immortalized conflict, and for good reason. It broke just as cinema was beginning to mature as a form of entertainment, and footage from the front narrated by peppy tales of victory was part of many people's moviegoing experience. What's more, though, the outlines of World War II could be boiled down to clean tales of good versus evil, bravery versus cruelty — the sort of stories that make good two-hour feature films.

Manohla Dargis and Alissa Wilkinson The New York Times Company

“The Room Next Door” is remarkably straightforward for a Pedro Almodóvar film, without the signature theatrics or sexual pyrotechnics that tend to pop up in the Spanish auteur's work.

Alissa Wilkinson The New York Times Company Q: Is it morally correct to stay seated until the end of the credits in a cinema?