Stephanie Zacharek

A friend of mine, generally not finicky, refuses to eat octopus . “I just can't eat any creature that's smarter than I am,” he says, and he's got a point.

Like its central octopus, the movie has a gentle soul and an elusive spirit

One problem with modern horror is that it rarely has a sense of humor about itself—or if it does, the best it can do is point to its own self-awareness

In 1994 journalist and music critic Mikal Gilmore , the younger brother of convicted killer Gary Gilmore, wrote a somber, searching memoir, Shot in

You can't rush a Ryusuke Hamaguchi movie. These are pictures you need to settle into; you live with them and in them as they unspool before you.

Just when you think you can't tolerate another Beatles documentary , along comes one that you truly might not be able to tolerate.

Filmmaker James Gray goes big and goes home in this 1960s Queens-set thriller.

If you've been a fan of Pedro Almodóvar's films since the beginning , or even just for the past decade or so, you're probably already familiar with

We've been ringing the death knell for Hollywood for so long—decades, really—that now, well into the age of the big, moneygrubbing streamers, it's become a tinny clink most of us can barely hear.

Writer-director John Carney has become something of a cottage industry, making charming Dublin-set films about everyday people who love to make music whether it brings them fame or not.