36 stories by "Manohla Dargis"
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande return to Oz for the second part of Jon M. Chu's maximalist adaptation of the Broadway musical.
The new live-action version of Disney's 1937 animated fairy tale has drawn (maddening) criticism for its casting and an updated story. But liberation only goes so far.
A new documentary looks back at the band's early years, featuring interviews with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones in retrospective mode.
The fizzy, determinedly upbeat documentary charts how Liza Minnelli survived Hollywood. It's inspiring, jaw-dropping and conspicuously incomplete.
Cynthia Erivo is the strongest draw in this splashy, overly long movie, which is the first installment in a two-part adaptation of the Broadway show.
Still puffily padded but no longer particularly tart, this shape-shifting classic about the girls you love to hate retains its ingratiating charms.
Ryan Murphy takes on the Broadway hit "The Prom," with help from Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Keegan-Michael Key.
Spike Lee joins forces with David Byrne for a joyous concert movie that rocks and delights, sending you high and then higher.
Renée Zellweger plays Judy Garland near the end of her life, when she grasped onto one more comeback and one last chance.
Ralph Fiennes directs this biographical look at the ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev's early life, including his 1961 defection to the West.
Bradley Cooper, in the third remake of the movie, tells a story of men, women and male sacrifice that has been portrayed over and over.
Bradley Cooper, who directed and stars with Lady Gaga, creates thrills with a steadfast belief in old-fashioned, big-feeling cinema.
"Happy as Lazzaro" and "Burning" are strong entries, so it's too bad they won't mean much to the American box office.
This documentary about the dancer Marcelo Gomes was completed before he left American Ballet Theater in December after allegations of sexual misconduct.
Hollywood wants us to think that its films are for everyone, but our critics say that was never true. Still, they see a way forward.
A documentary about Monticchiello in Italy, where each year the residents put on a play about their most urgent concerns.
Isabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel star in a screen version of an 18th-century Marivaux play and the last film directed by Luc Bondy.
Three New York Times critics share their reactions to the wrong best picture being announced at the awards show.
Damien Chazelle's film infuses Hollywood movies with a vision and energy that have been sorely missing.
Justin Kurzel's film suggests that there is a timeless quality to slaughter, raising questions about Macbeth's guilt and freedom of will.
Alex Ross Perry's narrative experiment, starring Katherine Waterston and Ms. Moss, turns out to be an art house film in quotation marks.
With “For Colored Girls” Tyler Perry works very hard and gets it mostly right.
The director Arthur Penn, who died at 88 on Sept. 28, made loose, vital movies that have no place in today's Hollywood.
Michael Almereyda's version of "Cymbeline" reaffirms that Shakespeare can always survive every interpretive trick.
Ava DuVernay, Barbra Streisand, Jill Soloway, Kimberly Peirce and other film directors talk about the struggles women face in their field.
