The actor Marie-Lise Chouinard faces her terminal-cancer diagnosis with grace and comedy in Laurence Gagné-Frégeau’s short documentary.

The fussy structure of Luca Guadagnino’s film dissipates the erotic charge on which the drama relies.

There’s still much to be learned about our prehistory. But we can’t help using it to explain the societies we have or to justify the ones we want.

“Shakespeare’s Sisters,” “Limitarianism,” “Rough Trade,” and “Leaving.”

“This Strange Eventful History” traces three generations of an itinerant French family with roots in colonial Algeria.

For many fans, the real harbinger of spring is the beginning of baseball season.