Corey Atad

Barry Jenkins wants you to look his ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ characters right in the eye

It’s incredible to think that the work of one of America’s greatest writers has never been adapted in English for the big screen before, but that’s the case for James Baldwin — until now, of course. For his first film following the best…

Steve McQueen talks ‘Widows’ and diverse casting in film: “Who’s saying it’s difficult?”

Jumping into genre territory might seem like an unexpected move for the director of the best-picture-winning 12 Years a Slave, but Steve McQueen doesn’t take his films lightly. With Widows, out Friday, McQueen brings his steely, highly observant…

Your guide to which Oscar favorites suit you best

Fall is here, which in the movie world means awards season has arrived, and this year’s is shaping up to be a more exciting one than usual. The slate of forthcoming awards hopefuls impressively features a range of subjects and genres, as well as…

‘Monsters and Men’ star John David Washington on activism: “You can be for the cause and the law”

“Message movies” can be a tricky proposition. Presenting onscreen the forces of oppression affecting people in the real world is one thing, but doing so with the care and humanity required to make a movie more than just a vessel for an opinion is a…

‘Thelma’ isn’t just a “lesbian horror movie.” It’s a story of love and self-acceptance.

In one scene from the new Norwegian thriller Thelma, the titular young woman is studying in her Oslo university’s library when she encounters another student. There’s something about her, this other student, that stirs feelings in Thelma that she’s…

Ruben Östlund’s ‘The Square’ is a satire of our culture of complicity

A half-naked man enters a grand ballroom. Wealthy museum patrons sit at gorgeously arranged dinner tables, dressed to the nines. The man, wearing what look like stilts on his arms, marches through the room like a dominant ape — an alpha — examining…