Richard Brody

“Couture,” starring Angelina Jolie as a movie director, treats the Paris fashion world as a backdrop for medical and domestic crises.

Before he had any interest in movies, Rohmer was a writer, and his 1946 début is a fine-grained vision of small-town lives in prewar France.

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The documentarian Ross McElwee’s new feature is an anguished reflection on the life and death of his son, Adrian, who was a frequent subject of his films.

Christopher Nolan’s Homer adaptation presents a modern, relatable Odysseus, rather than trying to understand the ancient world on its own terms.

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

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.