“Against the Grain” (1993), featuring John Terry as high school coach Ed Clemons, and Affleck as his son, the hunky young football player Joe Willie Clemons, was loosely based on Friday Night Lights.

In the original, he has an ability to imbue seemingly ordinary footage of people setting up a haunted house with mounting ...

Lasse Hallström ‘s latest film, “The Map That Leads to You,” has the makings of a Gen Z “Before Sunset” meets “Eat Pray Love, ...

Love, obsession, power, and attention collide to thrilling and frightening effect in Alex Russell’s feature-length ...

The Twisted tale of Amanda Knox” just doesn’t add enough new to the conversation for anyone who knows this story.

Locarno Film Festival’s yearly, rotating retrospective is almost always the best and surest ticket in town. Take last year’s ...

“A lot of ‘em are gone…the old faces,” Terence Stamp’s Wilson says flatly an hour into Steven Soderbergh’s exquisite neo-noir “The Limey,” with a twinge of sadness he doesn’t allow himself to let ...

On how two films capture racism abroad, including one that just played as a part of a Locarno retrospective.

Although “Pool of London” and “The Story of a Three-Day Pass” have relatively the same set-up—two Black men finding romance with foreign White women while on leave—the latter actually takes a ...

On three expressive films from Locarno, including the year’s winner of the Golden Leopard.