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Review: The Kindergarten Teacher

In The Kindergarten Teacher, Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Lisa Spinelli, a financially comfortable, fortysomething married woman with two...

"I'm not fitting!" Danny Meyerowitz (Adam Sandler) yells early on in The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected). He's talking about trying...

2017 has seen the release of some particularly excellent superhero films - the elegiac Logan, the rousing Wonder Woman and now the...

Published in 2009, Herman Koch's international bestseller The Dinner has already been adapted three times for the big screen: a 2013...

How does it feel to be like a rolling stone? Complete Unknown, which lyrically references Bob Dylan's song, doesn't so much answer this...

Greta Gerwig makes a grand entrance as Brooke Cardinas in Mistress America. Descending from the red steps behind the TKTS booth in Times...

People Places Things wraps itself around you like a gentle lullaby and warms you like the heat from a fireplace on a cold winter's night....