Richard Brody

The Venezuelan director Lorena Alvarado’s first feature film, “ Lost Chapters,” starring her own relatives, connects a young woman’s homecoming and her artistic ambitions.

Can you really say that you've seen a summer show in New York City until you've sat through at least one performance in brain-liquefying humidity?

Wendy Wasserstein's “An American Daughter” (revived, by La Femme Theatre Productions, at the Pershing Square Signature Center , now in previews) harks back to a more hopeful era.

Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film, which follows a celebrated young filmmaker tapped to reboot an old horror franchise, is a cinematic manifesto that examines how art can inspire both love and fear.

The kerfuffle over Christopher Nolan’s fidelity to Homer’s Odyssey reflects major questions in the history of cinema.

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

Rob Tregenza’s new film, “Fast”—96 minutes of cinema made in rural Virginia with no more than a few dozen long takes and a small batch of main characters—dazzles the mind and delights the eye, Richard Brody writes.

Culture preview: what's coming this season in TV, movies, art, theatre, dance, and music.

Struggles for personal and creative freedom fuel Shatara Michelle Ford’s “Dreams in Nightmares,” a loving, political drama about three women’s search for a friend gone missing.

A new biography of this crucial New York filmmaker, whose work confronts racial and economic divisions, reveals her furiously inventive activity away from public view.