Stephanie Zacharek

In a culture that tends to favor flashy, look-at-me filmmaking, a director with a gentle touch is sometimes just the breezy caress we need.

Movies built from intertwining stories can be hard to pull off. Sometimes you end up caring more about minor characters than major ones—but isn't that a little like life anyway?

Now that the golden age of the blockbuster superhero-comic-book movie is supposedly—and thankfully—over, fans of last decade's Marvel and D.C. pictures should be demanding more, not less.

There's a point every summer when just about any of us could use a dose of ridiculousness. It might hit right as the kids return from camp —or as you're counting the days until they go.

Parents often say that what they fear most is losing a child; those who end up suffering that loss often say there's nothing more painful.

The big-screen prestige spectacle is in danger. Now that the smartest, most interesting pictures tend to be smaller, independent projects—and the

At the end of 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home Tom Holland's Peter Parker Spider-Man is a young man adrift.

Either you've seen the statistics or you're living them: Millennials and members of Gen Z are having less sex than previous generations did.

Before the late Anthony Bourdain was a charismatic, adventurous TV personality —and even before he'd become a best-selling writer , with his

How many lives can be packed into one? If we live long enough, most of us reinvent ourselves several times over, by switching careers, changing partners, having children, moving to a new place.