Alan Scherstuhl

This time, we meet the sharecropping peasants of the remote village of Inviolata, living lives of seasonal toil, lives that look — except for the occasional radio or lightbulb — as they might have a century or so ago....

Pike’s Colvin is haunted by visions of carnage she has seen, sometimes imagining that her London home is a bombed-out shell of itself, that a little girl she saw die is lying in her own bed....

The story concerns sort of a playdate between the kids fathered by the first generation of Rocky boxers: Creed versus the son of Dolph Lundgren’s Ivan Drago, who in Rocky IV was built up as pretty much the most devastating weapon in the Soviet nuclear arsenal....

Conroy and Martin tell the stories of what the reporter and photographer discovered, but also how they got there — and how Conroy, eventually, got out....

It’s a mother’s story, with Yates following not just Flynn but also Meg McGarry, a filmmaker herself, who has been documenting for years her son’s culinary blossoming — and her encouragement....

One lord scowls with even more surliness than the rest: Chris Pine is Robert the Bruce, a Scot who will eventually declare himself king of his country and wage guerrilla war against Edward....

The director of Rosenstrasse, Rosa Luxemburg and Sheer Madness is tracking Bergman, toasting him and his work with his collaborators and some high-profile fans....

El Angel is a crime spree as improvised reverie, one with a subject who is as quick to give away his loot as the director is to make the subtext explicit....

It documents with an incisive drabness the group sessions, garbled sermons and general shoddiness of Love in Action, the program in which 19-year-old Jared (Lucas Hedges) is enrolled by his parents, played by Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe....