The Front Row

Kristen Stewart’s first feature, based on a memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, packs great emotional power into its boldly original form.

In dramatizing a real-life hostage crisis from 1977, Gus Van Sant teases out enticing themes that remain undeveloped.

Jim Jarmusch’s three-part drama, set in New Jersey, Dublin, and Paris, casts such notables as Adam Driver and Cate Blanchett in wry, ironic probes of grown children’s relationships with their parents.

The competition between Netflix and Paramount Skydance to acquire the studio is haunted by the ghosts of mergers past.

Documentaries about individuals are ubiquitous, but “Suburban Fury” and “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” explore the filmmaker-subject relationship in ways that recall classics of the form.

Our critics rank their favorite movies of the year.

A new biography traces the self-transformative creation of the most movie-made actress of classic Hollywood.

Richard Linklater’s dramatization of Jean-Luc Godard’s making of “Breathless” embraces the legend of the French New Wave and its enduring influence.

Ira Sachs’s film, starring Ben Whishaw as the renowned photographer and Rebecca Hall as his interviewer, is a personal memorial for the protagonist and his milieu.