Justin Chang

The opening shot of "Too Late to Die Young," Dominga Sotomayor's mysterious and absorbing new movie, is framed from inside a car as it gradually fills up with young passengers....

"My father, Raymond, is a chronic alcoholic. He doesn't like going outside and mostly drinks home-brew." The lines come from the back cover of "Ray's a Laugh," a celebrated 1996...

It spoils nothing to point out that "Murder Mystery," a painless, mostly mirthless action-comedy starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston , ends with an explicit homage to Agatha Christie. It's...

At the start of Joanna Hogg's semi-autobiographical drama, "The Souvenir," we hear a young filmmaker outlining her first feature: a grotty working-class narrative set in the shipyards of Sunderland, a...

"Never Look Away," an absorbing and ruminative new drama from the German writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, begins in Dresden in 1937. The world is about to tilt into madness,...