Justin Chang

The impulse to make sense of tragedy has given rise to any number of films, from Kim A. Snyder's "Newtown" and Tim Sutton's "Dark Night" to the forthcoming Hollywood blockbuster...

There comes a point in "The Handmaiden," a tantalizing triple-decker entertainment from South Korean director Park Chan-wook, when a book of lurid Japanese erotica opens up to reveal a drawing...

The title of "Disorder" refers to a nasty case of PTSD plaguing a French soldier named Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts), who has just returned home from his latest and likely final...

In the decade since she was outed as the mastermind behind the one-time literary phenomenon JT LeRoy, the San Francisco-based writer Laura Albert has been called many things: fraud, disgrace,...

"Just a normal wedding," the mother of the bride sniffs more than halfway through Marcin Wrona's "Demon." She's exaggerating a little. By that point in this Polish-set matrimonial horror film,...

At first glance, the title of "The Witness" would seem to reference the 38 residents of Kew Gardens in Queens, N.Y., who were pilloried in the press for their apparent...

There's a moment early on in "Captain Fantastic" when Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen), while driving his six kids around in a lovingly refurbished old school bus, catches one of his...

Nothing softens up a hard-hearted auteur quite like the presence of a beloved animal. The Coen brothers demonstrated this conclusively a few years ago with "Inside Llewyn Davis," an exquisite...

Hope and horror are commingled to quietly moving effect in "The Innocents," a restrained but cumulatively powerful French-Polish drama about the various crises of faith that emerge when a house...