Brady Corbet’s ambitious “The Brutalist,” about a post-World War II architect, challenges the way Hollywood makes movies.

As Slava Leontyev, his wife and artistic partner Anya Stasenko and their little dog Frodo walk through a bucolic, flower-dappled field while smoke and sirens rise in the distance, he notes that ...

When Karissa Chen was going through her grandparents’ belongings after their death, she found a photograph of her grandfather. He was standing in front of a grave, weeping. The grave belonged to his ...

When filmmaker RaMell Ross first read “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead’s harrowing 2019 novel about two teenage boys, Elwood and Turner, who meet at an abusive reform school in 1960s Florida, he ...

The Netflix documentary presents a thoughtful portrait of Bryan Johnson, who’s about way more than swapping blood plasma with his son.

She is us and we are her, shadows looking at each other, as she forces us to contemplate our own place in time and our own ...

Documentary co-directors Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev follow three Ukrainian artists who chose to stay while a brutal war raged in their home country. A porcelain owl by Anya Stasenko and Slava ...

Rosalind Eleazar as Kat, left, and Brigid Zengeni as Odette in “Missing You.” Photo: James Stack/Netflix It is Netflix’s resolution every new year to give viewers a head-scratcher in January. Since ...

Deborah Oropallo and Andy Rappaport, still from Uprising, 2021. 3 x 4K video projection with two-channel sound; 9:36 minutes. Photo: Courtesy of the artists and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco ...

The Chronicle’s curated list of notable new music releases for January. Ethel Cain’s new project, “Perverts,” is due out Wednesday, Jan. 8. Ethel Cain is taking a break from the Ethel Cain lore. The ...