Ann Hornaday

The Washington-based film festival encounters an industry facing major disruptions which, organizers say, might not be all bad.

Dakota Johnson plays a modern-day matchmaker in Celine Song’s bittersweet meditation on love and commerce.

Steven Spielberg’s 1975 sleeper hit has been credited and criticized for helping create blockbuster culture. It endures because of the fundamentals.

The third edition of DC/DOX provided counterprogramming and context to the military pageant happening just blocks away.

Brad Pitt’s Formula One drama offers summer audiences just the right amount of noise, spectacle and movie-star magic.

John Cena and Idris Elba play a U.S. president and British prime minister in a rote but real-world-adjacent action comedy.

David Corenswet brings sincerity and strength to the latest mixed-bag adaptation of the timeless comic book.

Viral video creator Eva Victor makes an impressive writing-directing debut on the big screen.

Ari Aster puts his signature bizarre touch on the spring of 2020, when pandemics, politics, posts and pings drove America around the bend.

Mahdi Fleifel’s street-level drama bursts with energy and pitiless realism, with dashes of poetry.