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How do you forget the insoluble? How do you move on? These are questions asked by Dominik Moll, director of “The Night of the 12th,” who, with Gilles Marchand, wrote the screenplay based on a short passage from Pauline Guéna’s true crime book “A Year

Just when you thought it was safe to get comfy in front of the TV and watch those new series that premiered last month, a whole new batch appears on the horizon.

This warm, loving, beautifully filmed documentary is a classic example of keeping your eyes, ears and heart open. 

Shekhar Kapur, the director, and Jemima Khan, the writer, have given us a smorgasbord of insight into love, chemistry, compatibility and the possibility that life is a slowly blossoming flower in “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” The questions raised are more slyly deceptive

New television series, limited or otherwise, are constantly being released. Just when I thought there'd be a breather, the various streaming platforms dropped a new batch. Several of the series I'll review for you, the good, the bad and the ugly, have been out for

This unassuming woman helped so many of us survive childhood and parenting with a knowing smile and a boost to the confidence that crashed the barriers of doubts and crises, fears and confrontations, and did it with a laugh and a grin. She was complicit

Joseph Bologne, aka Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the subject of "Chevalier," was a historical figure of almost mythical stature so impressive that Napoleon went to great lengths to erase him from history when he reinstated slavery in the French colonies in 1802 after it had been

The Portland, Oregon art scene is thriving and Lizzy is there on the margins. A potter, she lives a life of quiet frustration.

"Air," about the Nike-Michael Jordan marriage, is a pure pleasure from beginning to end.

Making a film within a film seems to be becoming a genre unto itself.