Joy, the new serio-comedy about Joy Mangano, the real-life woman who invented the self-wringing Miracle Mop, is one of David O. Russell’s most troubled and problematic films.

Tom McCarthy’s journalistic drama, Spotlight, is the best film of the year by the Boston Society of Film Critics.

The big box-office surprise of the Thanksgiving Weekend was how well Creed performed. The seventh film in the Rocky franchise successfully brought back Sylvester Stallone’s iconic Rocky character and revived a boxing franchise that seemed like a Reagan-era relic and exhausted in terms of narrative ideas and characters. It grossed $42.6 million over the five-day holiday […]

Assuming that each generation needs a cinematic reminder of the power and significance of the press, Spotlight, Tom McCarthy’s detailed chronicle of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the sex scandals within the Catholic Church…..

Maggie Smith, the legendary actress who’s now 80, gives such an astounding performance in The Lady in the Van that she elevates this extremely intimate, ultra-modest, old-fashioned melodrama to a higher, more lyrical and resonant level than it might have been on paper.