Movies

Your regular field guide to the world of movies in your living room and beyond.

Matthew Rankin’s perverse period reverie “The Twentieth Century” is a warped faux biopic of hallowed Canadian prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

Sergei Loznitsa’s brutally matter-of-fact, cynically comic “Donbass” depicts social destabilization in the titular war-ravaged region of eastern Ukraine.

New documentaries include “Coded Bias,” “I Am Greta,” “Soros,” “Markie in Milwaukee” and “Born to Be.”

Find a flick with our guide to new and classic movies playing outdoors at L.A.-area drive-ins, pop-ups and rooftops.

Darius Marder’s drama is an uncommonly nuanced portrait of a young man entering a Deaf community.

Actor Kurt Russell thinks celebs should shut their mouths when it comes to politics. Better to remain the blank-slate “court jesters” that they are.

Claes Bang and Guy Pearce face off in the lukewarm post-World War II art forgery drama “The Last Vermeer.”

Representatives for Harvey Weinstein say that the disgraced film mogul does not have COVID-19 but that he is “still being closely monitored” in prison.

In a year when many holiday traditions will be upended, films such as “Happiest Season,” “The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two” and “Godmothered” look to keep the spirit of holiday movies alive.

Moviegoing will be different this Thanksgiving, but with high quality titles set for release and coming soon there’s still plenty of things to be grateful about.

“Soul” co-directors Pete Docter and Kemp Powers explain the process of centering an animated fantasy around an authentically Black character.