Cringe comedy is apparently here to stay, and the latest example is “Friendship.” The film highlights the talents of sketch comic Tim Robinson, a Second City and “Saturday Night Live” alum. If you’re ...

The new movie from the Philippou twins is a psychologically twisted example of the trapped-in-a-house horror subgenre. Sally Hawkins, right, and Jonah Wren Phillips star in the Australian horror film ...

Dear Teresa Concepcion: Well, in one sense of the word “best,” I’d say the Roxie Theater, the Stanford Theatre, the Rafael Film Center and the theater inside the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...

Jia Zhang-ke’s “Caught by the Tides” is less than two hours long and yet contains nearly a quarter-century of time’s relentless march forward. Few films course with history the way it does in the ...

Chronicle film critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also answers questions about who he thinks really got snubbed at the Oscars, “The Letter” and the late Heuwell Tircuit. “My Old Ass” is one of the films ...

The first feature film from director James Madigan is an action drama about havoc on a Bangkok to SFO jetliner. Unfortunately, it falls flat. Josh Hartnett stars as a man on a mission who is on a ...

“Clown in a Cornfield” will never be ranked among the classics of our time, but there are aspects of it that are worthy of admiration. Based on Adam Cesare’s 2020 novel of the same name, it’s not only ...

Ambrose Akinmusire and Alonzo King partner for “The Beauty of Dissolving Portraits,” which captures the struggle for connection in a fractured world. Theo Duff-Grant performs in “The Beauty of ...

Bestselling author Isabel Allende has been beloved for decades by millions of passionately loyal readers for her strong female protagonists and epic story lines stretching across the Americas. In ...

Alec Soth brings us back to art school with his photographic series, “Alec Soth: Advice for Young Artists.” The work, inspired in part by Walker Evans’ Polaroids of young people, reflects on art ...

It’s possible rapper Tupac Shakur first formulated his distaste for police brutality while still inside the womb. That’s because his mother, Black Panther member Afeni Shakur, was heavily pregnant ...

Caro De Robertis’ oral history captures the transformative power of oral histories from elder trans, nonbinary and genderqueer people of color. Oakland author Caro De Robertis’ latest book is “So Many ...