Nathaniel Bell

The success of a horror film depends less on its story than on its execution. Even the descriptor “found footage” is sometimes misleading; you may think you kno...

Ordinary Angels is another polished, crowd-pleasing drama from Kingdom Story Company—the most successful faith-based production unit of the last several decades...

Joel and Ethan Coen are like two color records printed onto separate rolls of film. When glued together, you get something like Technicolor (the Coen style). Is...

Origin is a movie about a book  — specifically, the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize winning Caste by journalist Isabel Wilkerson, who in the movie is played by Aunj...

TV loves doctors and lawyers; movies love professional killers. Just ask Jean-Pierre Melville. Or better yet, ask David Fincher, whose new movie, The Killer, is...

For his third outing as Hercule Poirot, Kenneth Branagh, together with screenwriter Michael Green, made the shrewd decision to select one of Agatha Christie’s l...

Padre Pio was, by all accounts, a remarkable man. Born in 1887, he lived to be 81, serving for many decades as a Franciscan friar before being canonized by the ...

Paul Schrader has built a long and distinguished career on occupational metaphors. Taxi drivers, American gigolos, card counters— characters who represent somet...

Women Talking may be the most accurately titled film to be released this year. Written and directed by Sarah Polley from a novel by Miriam Toews, the movie is e...