Is God Is (2026) movie review summary: Issues of power (and its abuse) and ethics (and its inapplicability) are at the core of Aleshea Harris’ psychological family drama.
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I Remember Mama (1948) movie review: Irene Dunne has one of the best roles of her career in George Stevens’ nostalgic immigrant family drama.
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Belfast movie: Kenneth Branagh is shooting his ‘most personal film,’ set in tumultuous 1960s Northern Ireland. Judi Dench and Jamie Dornan among stars.
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Visions of the shattered American Dream in 2 ‘Arthur Miller movies’: The subversive family dramas All My Sons and Death of a Salesman.
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Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) movie review: Leo McCarey’s old-age drama focuses on the plight of the discardable elderly. Beulah Bondi stars.
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The Whales of August (1987) movie review: Lillian Gish and Bette Davis are two of the five veterans who bring to marvelous life Lindsay Anderson’s elegiac old-age drama.
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Tokyo Sonata (2008) movie review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa exposes the unraveling of Japan’s traditional social fabric in this capably acted urban drama.
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Fanny and Alexander (1982) movie review: Ingmar Bergman’s sumptuous big-screen swan song is even more engrossing as a miniseries.
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Aurora Borealis (2005) movie review: Joshua Jackson delivers a sensitive performance in this otherwise conventional family dramedy with Donald Sutherland.
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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Academy screening: 1967 blockbuster was Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy’s final pairing When the Academy Award nominations for the year 1967 were announced in early …
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Wah-Wah (2005) movie review: Richard E. Grant’s Swaziland-set coming-of-age drama lacks emotional punch. Nicholas Hoult and Julie Walters star.
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The Family Stone (2005) movie review: Diane Keaton heads an obnoxious New England clan that is the personification of liberal smugness. Sarah Jessica Parker costars.
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Amu (2005) movie review: Uneven family drama traces the connection between a long-ago adoption and the bloody anti-Sikh Delhi riots of 1984.
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The Great Journey (2004) movie review: Nicolas Cazalé and Mohamed Majd deliver spot-on performances in mostly traditionalist road to Mecca drama.
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Sorrell and Son (1927) movie review: A superlative H.B. Warner stars in Herbert Brenon’s accomplished father love drama featuring an array of adult situations.