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Lost and Found: A family deals with a loved one's dementia in Elizabeth Chomko's 'What They Had'

Lost and Found: A family deals with a loved one's dementia in Elizabeth Chomko's 'What They Had'

What Elizabeth Chomko had before 'What They Had' was a string of 16 under-distinguished film appearances.
Fraudulently Yours: Marielle Heller directs a surprising Melissa McCarthy as forger Lee Israel in 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?'

Fraudulently Yours: Marielle Heller directs a surprising Melissa McCarthy as forger Lee Israel in 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?'

In 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?,' Melissa McCarthy drops her usual ingratiating comic shtick and transforms herself into the toughest, meanest lesbian who ever prowled and drank her way through the streets of Manhattan.
A Teenager Adrift: Felix Van Groeningen's 'Beautiful Boy' is a true story of addiction's toll

A Teenager Adrift: Felix Van Groeningen's 'Beautiful Boy' is a true story of addiction's toll

Steve Carell profoundly flunked the stepdad test in 2013’s 'The Way, Way Back,' but nowadays he’s mightily making amends, playing the emotionally taxed father of Amazon’s 'Beautiful Boy.'
Beyond the Velvet Rope: Matt Tyrnauer explores the short-lived heyday of Studio 54

Beyond the Velvet Rope: Matt Tyrnauer explores the short-lived heyday of Studio 54

As a fairly new arrival in Manhattan and soon-to-be-dropout of my second college, I had but one ambition in life in 1977: to work in a disco. It was all tied up in my coming out gay and a love for dancing to the innovatively sexy, funky sound then being invented by the likes of Donna Summer,...
Speaking Out: George Tillman, Jr.'s timely 'The Hate U Give' centers on a teenage witness to a police shooting

Speaking Out: George Tillman, Jr.'s timely 'The Hate U Give' centers on a teenage witness to a police shooting

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter has just arrived at a party in her impoverished neighborhood of Garden Heights feeling terrifically out of place.
Triple Take: Reinaldo Marcus Green's 'Monsters and Men' is a multi-faceted study of a police shooting

Triple Take: Reinaldo Marcus Green's 'Monsters and Men' is a multi-faceted study of a police shooting

When police shoot an unarmed African-American man in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, three men of color respond in different ways. In Monsters and Men, director Reinaldo Marcus Green employs a triptych structure to detail the intimate and heart-stopping choices they’re forced to make...
The Symbiote Inside Me: Ruben Fleischer guides Tom Hardy’s split personalities in Marvel’s 'Venom'

The Symbiote Inside Me: Ruben Fleischer guides Tom Hardy’s split personalities in Marvel’s 'Venom'

No one can accuse filmmaker Ruben Fleischer of repeating himself—his directorial credits include the post-apocalyptic horror comedy 'Zombieland,' action crime drama 'Gangster Squad' and superhero film 'Venom.'
New York Film Festival at 56: Celebrating the new, cherishing the old

New York Film Festival at 56: Celebrating the new, cherishing the old

The 56th New York Film Festival (NYFF), a presentation of The Film Society of Lincoln Center running now through Oct. 14 in Manhattan, is sticking to its long-cherished regimen of brand-new, venerable and curiosity films that invariably draw the area’s hordes of adventurous cinephiles. Subtitles...
The Sundown Kid: Robert Redford returns to robbing banks in David Lowery's 'The Old Man & the Gun'

The Sundown Kid: Robert Redford returns to robbing banks in David Lowery's 'The Old Man & the Gun'

The Sundance Kid is hardly a kid anymore.
'The Goodness of Show Business People': Entertainment charities put a focus on kids

'The Goodness of Show Business People': Entertainment charities put a focus on kids

When a baby named Catherine was found abandoned in a Pittsburgh, PA theatre on Christmas Eve 1928, a note asking finders to take care of her read, in part: "I have always heard of the goodness of show business people…”