Guy Lodge

"C'est moi, la loi!" screams a bent cop midway through "Les Misérables." If he's trying to emulate the comic-book indomitability of Judge "I am the law" Dredd, his shrill, panicked...

"Love knows nothing improper," chides a zealous preacher in "Temblores (Tremors)." Ostensibly, she says it to an entire rapt church; more pointedly, she's addressing mild-mannered family man Pablo, as he's...

Tucked in the closing credits of "Playmobil: The Movie" is a dedication to Horst Brandstätter, the German entrepreneur whose company began production of the now-iconic Playmobil toys in the 1970s...

Something curious happened to Agnes Varda with her last film, the freewheeling, personality-driven road doc "Faces Places": at the age of 88, sixty-odd years and twenty-odd films into her career,...

Back in the mists of 1973, it seemed a pretty novel idea for an anthropologist to place 11 demographically diverse strangers on a bare-bones raft for 100 days, and task...

The family that prays together stays together, with entirely chilling consequences, in "Of Fathers and Sons," an intrepid, cold sweat-inducing study of Jihadi radicalization in the home from celebrated Syrian...

The visa-motivated courtship of convenience has been the subject of many a romantic comedy, though when you consider the bleak reality of the situation, it's hardly a laughing matter: For...

It is through oral storytelling that most key folk tales, myths and histories across African culture have been passed and preserved through the generations. It is by tapping into this...

There's a different, darker film lurking beneath the lusciously edible Food Network surface of "Chef Flynn," and when director Cameron Yates lets it peek out from the gastroporn, like little...