Disney+’s adaptation of the Jerry Spinelli novel is tooth-achingly twee.
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Spike Lee’s 1986 debut is a bold, if shaggy, milestone for the history of Black cinema.
Demme’s 1986 screwball comedy is one of his most joyful and unexpectedly rebellious films.
The cinematographer of Sundance favorite Jumbo talks about transforming a tilt-a-whirl into Noémie Merlant’s living, breathing lover.
Issa Rae and Lakeith Stanfield look at their romance through the lens of the past in Stella Meghie’s sumptuous drama.
Netflix’s sequel to To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before keeps the charm but loses some of its edge.
Levan Akin’s grounded, richly textured Georgian love story brims with dance and forbidden romance.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire’s Noémie Merlant gets sweet on a theme park ride in this charming, if conventionally quirky dramedy.
Makoto Shinkai’s followup to Your Name is another charming coming-of-age tale with a supernatural twist.
Sam Mendes’s tale of forlorn love works best as a study of the pitfalls that litter the American Dream.
Netflix’s cult-hit stalker melodrama returns for a second season of wild, campy intrigue.
Netflix continues its ongoing battle with Hallmark for the souls of middling Christmas movies everywhere. In an effort […]
Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen elevate an otherwise warmed-over thriller as two people wrapped up in a late-life romance gone terribly wrong.
On the thirty-fifth anniversary of the film’s release, we look back at James Cameron’s most melancholy blockbuster.
Martin Scorsese’s scintillating period romance is a Victorian treatise on the sufficating gulf between desire and decorum.
The precursor to “Dracula” gets a sumptuous if not entirely faithful film adaptation.
Alice Furtado’s obsessive teen romance-horror is long on atmosphere, and lean on everything else.
Hulu’s adaptation of the John Green novel explores the messy, furtive road of teenage love, warts and all.