Justin Chang

Film critic Justin Chang says 'Blue Bayou' succeeds is in its portrait of the strength and the fragility of families in situations where the decks are stacked against them.

Movie critic Justin Chang reviews The new independent drama "The Card Counter", starring Oscar Isaac as a professional poker player and former military man who was convicted of war crimes at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.

Film critic Justin Chang says best moments in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings are the ones where you almost — almost — forget you're watching a Marvel movie.

The hit of the 2021 virtual Sundance Film Festival centers on a teenager who's the only hearing member of her close-knit family. CODA strikes some false notes, but it also delivers heartfelt emotion.

Movie critic Justin Chang reviews the new Aretha Franklin movie Aretha, and the TV miniseries Genius: Aretha.

Movie critic JUSTIN CHANG reviews the new movie musical Annette starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard. The movie won the best director prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the French filmmaker Leos Carax

Justin Chang says with this boldly inventive adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an anonymously written but enduring 14th-century poem, the writer-director David Lowery has taken a young man's journey of self-discovery and fashioned it into a gorgeous and moving work of art.

Justin Chang says each chapter of South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo's new film 'The Woman Who Ran' is funny, moving and absorbing on its own, but he says the film is even more intriguing to think about afterward as you puzzle over how those chapters fit together.

Film critic Justin Chang is not attending the Cannes Film festival, but he's still seeing a lot of films from it. He says "it's been a typically mixed bag of the good, the bad and the sometimes great, but it's also been wonderful to see so many bold, ambitious movies on the big screen — like experiencing a mini-festival of my own."

By curious coincidence, two of the lovelier movies I've seen so far this summer — the family-friendly animated fable Luca and the German art-house fairy tale Undine — tell stories about mythic sea creatures making contact with the human world.