From gems like Frances Ha to classics like Taxi Driver, the best character studies in cinema offer a look into the inner ...

Every once in a while, there’s a big-budget movie worth seeing in a theater. Although the new “Oppenheimer” biopic has a liberal slant, it eschews petty, simplistic narratives aimed at deconstructing ...

Wonder Man is a grounded, mature character study that pulls back the curtain on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Here's our ...

The Penguins, from bottom left, clockwise: Burgess Meredith in "Batman"; Danny Devito in "Batman Returns"; as a woman (voiced by Minnie Driver) in "Batman: Caped Crusader"; Colin Farrell in "The ...

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Emily the Criminal. The list of movies that shake their fists at capitalism is practically endless. And the majority of them pit the economic ...

The plight of domestic care workers — both before and during the pandemic — has never been greater. These employees, predominantly women of color, are tasked with some of the hardest labor: that of ...

In a show of videos and lenticular photos, the artist interrogates the idea of breaking character and the ways we present different versions of ourselves.

“Blue Moon,” directed by Richard Linklater, is an emotionally rich tribute to the life and works of Broadway songwriter Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke). It focuses on the night of the release of “Oklahoma!” ...

Writer-director Scott Cooper doesn’t want to make a music biopic. At least not the kind of music biopic you expect. Instead, in “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” he offers a character study as ...

Polish director Jan Komasa might be best known in the United States for his 2019 Oscar-nominated film, “Corpus Christi,” but his biggest box office success was in Poland, for his 2014 film “Warsaw 44, ...