Different Ways to Win the War (and the Oscar?)

Snapshot | Kaitlyn Dever

Some Teenagers Are Old for Their Age

Kaitlyn Dever talks about new films, “Men, Women & Children” and “Laggies.”

Want to Make a Film? Stand on a Corner

By ERIC HYNES

Manfred Kirchheimer’s documentaries are getting a new look, with “Stations of the Elevated” now having a theatrical run.

Hand-Carved Love Triangle

By MEKADO MURPHY

The director Jorge R. Gutierrez and the art director Paul J. Sullivan describe how Mexican folk art influenced the look of “The Book of Life.”

Scene City

The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

By JACOB BERNSTEIN

The eager crowd at a ‘Fury’ screening is left to wonder if Brad Pitt is underappreciated.

On Video

Man-Child in the Puppet Land

By J. HOBERMAN

The Saturday-morning CBS series “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” now in a Shout! Factory collection, was a riot of invention that alternated between the sweet and the risqué.

Happy to Be Your Guide to Black Identity

By NELSON GEORGE

It took the writer-director Justin Simien seven years to fine-tune his comic vision of racial identity and make “Dear White People.”

Everyman Returns

By MELENA RYZIK

Michael Keaton has drawn early raves for his performance in “Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance,” a film that in some ways parallels his career.

‘Fury,’ Starring Brad Pitt, a Raw Look at Warfare

By MICHAEL CIEPLY

The film offers a relentlessly authentic portrayal of the extremes endured, and inflicted, by Allied troops who entered Germany in the spring of 1945.

Movie Review | 'Diplomacy'

Paris Wasn’t Burning: A Look at Why Not

By A. O. SCOTT

Volker Schlöndorff’s “Diplomacy” imagines an evening’s conversation that saved Paris from being blown up by a retreating Nazi army in 1944.

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Movie Review | ‘The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga,’

A Slavic Tone Poem, via Hansel and Gretel

By NICOLAS RAPOLD

“The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga” entwines a folk tale of that title with evocative footage of contemporary Eastern European locales.

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Movie Review | 'Addicted'

A Wife Addicted to Lust, No Matter the Cost

By NICOLE HERRINGTON

“Addicted,” a film by Bille Woodruff, is a cautionary tale of a restless businesswoman who seems to have it all but descends into sex addiction.

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