Author:   Bruce Steele

The "Downton Abbey" braintrust reunites for this '20s-set New York City soap opera.

Diane Keaton keeps this senior comedy from veering off into inanity or sentimentality more than once.

The director of Son of Saul returns with a mesmerizing drama about the European aristocracy in the years before World War I.

Sex therapist Ruth Westheimer gets the bio-doc treatment in this informative, powerful film.

Based on actual events, the faith-based drama is a relatively straightforward movie with an A-minus-list cast.

Alison Klayman's documentary makes right-wing strategist Steve Bannon out to be a bumbling, occasionally volcanic doofus.

The new young adult romance After is not quite dullsville, but it assiduously avoids real drama. Anytime the storyline sets up the potential for explosive conflict — a wedding cake begging to be toppled, a mother walking in on her daughter astride a half-naked young man — the characters turn away. What should be the […]

An angry, anti-social inmate. An angry, unbroken horse. A program to have prisoners train wild mustangs to be sold at auction, rather than euthanized. You know where The Mustang is going. Except you don’t, really. The movie, from Belgian actress-turned-director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, takes some unexpected turns and either minimizes or rethinks a lot of […]

The documentary about Montreal's Jewish history and culinary scene closes out the 2019 Asheville Jewish Film Festival.

The latest Asheville Jewish Film Festival selection is a low-key, carefully balanced romantic drama.

Hal Linden is casually terrific as the titular grandfather in the Asheville Jewish Film Festival's second selection.

In one of his final roles, the recently departed Bruno Ganz shines as Sigmund Freud in the Asheville Jewish Film Festival's opening night film.

Vincent D'Onofrio's generally entertaining take on the Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett saga centers on a fictional teen who crosses paths with the Western legends.

The documentary put viewers back in the middle of the unfolding NASA drama, with the advantage of 50 years’ hindsight.

In the rarefied world of third installments of animation franchises, HTTYD3 may be outshone only by Toy Story 3.

This post-apocalyptic sci-fi action film is mostly a great excuse for a series of thoroughly entertaining, CG-heavy action sequences.

The surprise double Oscar nominee is a rewarding but trying three-hour experience.