A problem with every movie about Shakespeare’s life is that it constantly invites comparison to Shakespeare's works. Shrugging off a mid...

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator movies work by wrapping sports movie logic around the trappings of ancient warfare. They meet in the bloody overla...

Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers is a palpable portrait of loneliness and the long tail of childhood grief. It’s a film that feels haunte...

They say poetry is about the words that aren’t written, music is the notes that aren’t played, and sculpting is a matter of carving away eve...

The trick of Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People , the buzzy, intimate coming-of-age sort-of-romance published last year, is that it’s clos...