Justin Chang

In this endearing farce, Kristen Stewart plays a woman planning to meet her girlfriend's family and propose marriage. The problem? The girlfriend's never actually come out to her folks.

Steve McQueen has made searingly powerful films about historical injustice, from slavery in the American South to a 1981 hunger strike in a Northern Irish prison. But only now has he dramatized the experiences of Black women and men in the U.K., specifically the West Indian neighborhoods of London where he grew up

Justin Chang says Ammonite, the new film starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, is sort of like a British Brokeback Mountain, only a lot more explicit and with a much happier ending.

'City Hall' is famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman's latest film.

Justin Chang reviews The Witches the new adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Anne Hathaway.

Justin Chang reviews the new film adapted from the lesser-known, but semi-autobiographical novel by Jack London.

Justin Chang reviews two new documentaries, one about President Trump's handling of the covid pandemic; and the other about the impact of incarceration on a family.

This year, Radha Blank became the second Black woman to earn that prize for her first feature, The Forty-Year-Old Version. It was a worthy winner, not just because it's a terrific movie, but also because it's specifically about the challenges of making meaningful, personal art from an underrepresented perspective.

Justin Chang says the film is based on a densely plotted 2011 novel by the Ohio-born author Donald Ray Pollock, and it's grim in ways that can be both exciting and a little wearying: so many twists and betrayals, so many horrific acts of violence.

The relationship at the center of Kaufman's new Netflix film might not be long for the world, but the main characters are nevertheless awfully hard to get out of your mind.