Part 2 just got a major creative boost, and it comes straight from the Star Wars universe. The upcoming DC sequel has ...

One of the most powerful dramas of the 2020s, Aftersun, featuring an Oscar-nominated performance by Paul Mescal, is now ...

Rummana Hussain/Sun-Times Share Imagine a nuclear missile flying toward Chicago. This horrifying scenario is at the center of Kathryn Bigelow’s new Netflix film, “A House of Dynamite.” In Hiroshima, ...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi puts a lot on the line for his work. Authorities could again arrest him for speaking out against the country’s hard-line regime. They could send him back to the ...

The first rule when it comes to editing a provocative film in a police state? Be careful. Be very, very careful. “When Mr. Jafar invited people to be part of this project, several times he emphasized, ...

It isn’t quite fair when an artist’s real-life circumstances overtake his work in the public imagination. But for the Iranian director Jafar Panahi the two are unusually inextricable. His own style is ...

I saw 1993’s Last Action Hero for the first time on cable when I was five or six years old and distinctly remember talking to my best friend about it at school the following day. Not knowing the name ...

The mundane act of a car breaking down one night on a road in Iran sets in motion one of the most moving movies of the year in “It Was Just an Accident.” The sputtering car comes to a stop outside a ...

Garin Nugroho’s “Samsara,” Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” and Lav Diaz’s “Magellan” are among the top nominees for the 18th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), the Asia Pacific Screen Academy ...