It was, to some, a beautiful thing. In 1992, the Chinese Communist Party decided to send children abroad for adoption. Child ...

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The director’s dark depictions of suburban yearning made him a titan of indie film. Why can’t he get his next movie made?

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A Midwestern empty nester opens her home to a tough-talking New Yorker in Jen Silverman’s sputtering star vehicle.

Taking the form of a nineteen-sixties documentary, Robert Kolodny’s début feature goes behind the scenes of a real-life boxer ...

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Audrey Diwan’s film, though set in the France of the nineteen-sixties, stares urgently at a possible future in which pregnant ...

Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. Last week, New York City’s police commissioner, Edward Caban, resigned after a federal corruption ...

A new line of inquiry asks us to imagine them as random individuals who just happen to live in our homes. Was it a face-off ...

One night, I put my bookmark in and realized that I was at the halfway point. That motivated me to keep going. “I was walking ...