MANOHLA DARGIS

Jean-Luc Godard was a prophet of film’s future as an art form, layering images and sound that the body could sink into and the mind...

“The Godfather” helped open up a range of roles for the actor that allowed him to play against type and expectation in wonderful ways.

The director Taika Waititi injects antic silliness, once again, into this Marvel franchise starring Chris Hemsworth, who swings a mighty hammer and flexes mightier muscles.

Titles like “Aftersun,” “Tori and Lokita” and “EO” offer dark visions that challenge and move viewers.

“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Tchaikovsky’s Wife” and other movies each get polemical in their own way. But there are scenes of lyrical beauty, as in “Scarlet.”

In his latest movie, the French director Jacques Audiard tells the story of lovers finding their way in Paris.

Jared Leto bares his teeth as a neo-vampire who walks by day and tries to keep his monstrous thirst at bay in the latest Marvel...

Naomi Watts stars in a true-life drama about a woman who hiked up a mountain alone and returned with some heavy, unexpected cargo.

Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum and a vamping Brad Pitt run around in a romantic adventure that you have seen before and will see again.

In this gangster exercise set in 1956 Chicago, Mark Rylance plays a tailor who has very large scissors and some sharp moves.