This post was updated April 28 at 7:17 p.m. In this backhanded game of love and tennis, “Challengers” has an ace up its sleeve. Slicing into theaters Friday, director Luca Guadagnino’s riveting ...

Growing up, when I would throw a tantrum or be upset, my parents would always tell me not to be "melodramatic," which roughly translated into "stop being a brat." But what if I told you there was a ...

Within the first ten minutes of Nicholas Ray’s unimpeachable classic Rebel Without a Cause Jim Stark (James Dean) wails, “You’re tearing me apart!!!!!” This is not an instance where the film ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces Emotion Pictures: International ...

As with most things in life, the most memorable horror films must risk being bad – take swings that won’t work with everyone in the audience – if they want to be great. Damian McCarthy’s Oddity passes ...

A Gallic one-hit wonder from the '70s gets a new lease on life in contempo Lebanon in the charmer "Melodrama Habibi," a slickly produced first feature by Franco-Lebanese helmer Hany Tamba. Though on ...

The horrors of murder, war, imprisonment and abuse somehow make for a drab little drama in Henry Alex Rubin’s sincere, but unremarkable “Semper Fi.” The film takes events which should be riveting and ...

It would be nice to report that Wash Westmoreland’s “Earthquake Bird” was, well, anything really. It’s almost a romantic melodrama, but it’s emotionally inert. It’s almost a biting statement about ...

The Brussels European Film Festival opens June 28 with the world premiere of “Melodrama Habibi,” a comedy from Paris-based Lebanese helmer Hany Tamba. It features Patrick Chesnais as a forgotten ...

Since he emerged as a force in international cinema in the 1980s, Spain's Pedro Almodovar has been synonymous with irrepressibly inventive, colour-saturated excess. Whether the earlier comedies or the ...