Trey Edward Shults’s directorial début Krisha sees the filmmaker positioning his own family at the center of this unsettling tale of addiction, chaos, and humanity that strikes — quite literally for...

Iowa and Hollywood will get a little closer this summer. In August 2016, an Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus will costar in a film directed by James Franco. David Shields explores questions about...

In 45 Years, the only certainty of love is its uncertainty. In Sophie Fiennes’s 2009 documentary The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek said the realization...

Marielle Heller’s directorial feature début (and Sundance-prèmiere) Diary of a Teenage Girl manages to escape the clichés and pitfalls normally associated with coming-of-age films; instead, it paints...