Writer/director Greta Gerwig breaks down how one of Barbie's most quotable Ken lines came together on set.

Director Behn Zeitlin set a very high bar with his acclaimed debut feature Beasts of the Southern Wild. While his long-awaited follow-up, Wendy, bears some of the same elements—rambunctious kids, magical realism, unknown actors, climate awareness—it feels like an even stronger picture thanks to its filmmaker’s growing ambition. Peter Pan has been done to death with varying levels of success, but Zeitlin’s adaptation overflows with imagination as it manages to deconstruct the myth while never losing its timeless energy. Wendy retains the melancholy coming-of-age story of Peter Pan, but also reframes aspects …

There has perhaps never been a more spectacular piece of prestige camp than HBO's 2017 breakout sensation Big Little Lies, which nailed a pinpoint middle ground between delicious soapy drama and inspired character drama. Boasting an addictive pulpy mystery pulled from Liane Moriarty's novel, beachside real estate porn that would make Nancy Meyers blush, and the best ensemble of leading ladies on TV -- led by Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, and Zoë Kravitz -- Big Little Lies countered addictive murder mystery and the savage theatrics of the upper class with searing insight into abuse, trauma, and …

Few storytellers exist between the lines like Claire Denis. The French filmmaker thrives in the grimy, grey areas of the human experience that make such fertile breeding ground for genre cinema, complex characters, and taboo -- a subject at the heart of her English-language debut, the subversive sci-fi drama High Life. Set on a spacecraft where former death row inmates volunteer for a suicide mission straight into a black hole, the film slips through time as they fly through space. The non-linear narrative centers on Monte (Robert Pattinson), who we first meet patching up the side of a …