The Best Picture nominee Train Dreams features a rarity in Western fiction: a protagonist with little agency and even less interior life. Where most stories, especially American stories about men, the ...

Ryan Gosling leads Project Hail Mary, a satisfying space odyssey that adds extraterrestrial wrinkles to Andy Weir's wonkiness.

No, only the uneven Freddy vs. Jason has any juice, and for one good reason: it pits Jason against another monster. We could have had so many more exciting, if not exactly good, Friday the 13th movies ...

As Oscar season heats up, we’ve been taking a critical eye to the Best Picture winners of the past, and having already tackled the ’80s and ’90s, we’re now moving on to the ’00s, where we will not be ...