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In 1990, “The Piano Lesson” won the eminent playwright August Wilson his second of two Pulitzers for drama. It’s part of his Pittsburgh Cycle (sometimes called his Century Cycle), a set of 10 decade-spanning plays about Black American life.

McQueen makes a point of integrating into the film what is rarely seen in movies of this sort: a sharp depiction of racism among Londoners, the enraging sort that has so calcified it still surfaces when people are just trying to survive.

Film director Daniel Roher asks his subject a dark question: “If you are killed — if this does happen — what message do you leave behind to the Russian people?”

Jonathan Glazer’s new film dismantles simple cliches about the banality of evil.

The history and thought of the artist Anselm Kiefer is threaded throughout this exceptional documentary from Wim Wenders.

The two big sticking points between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP, explained.

Turns out Greta Gerwig’s 'Barbie" movie is a Biblical metaphor after all...

The HBO film adapts the FBI transcript from Reality Winner’s interrogation into a stunning thriller.

It’s been 15 years since the last WGA strike, and the stakes are far greater.

14 years later, we’re all still trying to make it work.