In the end, the film succumbs to the tropes and emotional contrivances of the family melodrama at its core.

The fun but more predictable Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald moves the new series forward, but only incrementally.

Widows is a demonstration of Steve McQueen embracing his commercial instincts instead of trying to pass them off as weighty and important.

Claude Lanzmann's film reminds us that the past isn’t an object behind us but a presence that’s always with us.

The dichotomy represented by Jonathan and John is too clean for the film's exploration of a divided psyche to ever feel particularly complex.