Chronicle film critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also answers questions about how much sex is necessary to a story and which time ...

“Noises Off,” running Sept. 25-Nov. 8, opens the company’s 2025-26 lineup at its Union Square venue on the second floor of ...

John Brougher, left, and Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe in Magic Theatre’s “The Boiling.” Photo: Jay Yamada/Magic Theatre The art form might be called drama, but gentleness is a perfectly valid approach ...

Kit Connor stars as a Navy SEAL caught in battle during the Iraq War in Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s film “Warfare.” Photo: Murray Close/A24 One of the most realistic war movies ever made is opening ...

One good thing about Eddie Izzard’s one-person “Hamlet” is that it suggests how great Izzard (who also goes by Suzy in some contexts) would be in pretty much anything that’s not a one-person “Hamlet.” ...

The modern fairy tale is a tricky thing, what with phones and cities and all the trappings of now that tend to suck the magic out of a story and make it impossible to suspend disbelief. But Natalia ...

Back in 2001, when Naomi Watts blew everyone away in her breakthrough performance in “Mulholland Drive,” you might have predicted she would go on to receive two Oscar nominations. But few could have ...

Michelle Williams is devastatingly real once this FX/Hulu show about a terminally ill woman’s fulfillment quest drops the juvenile humor. Michelle Williams, from left, and Jenny Slate play best ...

San Francisco author Jon Hickey’s debut novel centers on Mitch Caddo, a mixed-race tribal operations director navigating political and personal turmoil on a fictional Anishinaabe reservation. Jon ...

Val Kilmer once proclaimed that he’s almost been fired from all his movies. Thankfully for us, he wasn’t. Though he might have frustrated more than a few directors, they too knew the headaches were ...

About a third of the way through “Dope Thief” you might get hit by a gnawing and familiar thought: This should have been a two-hour movie, not an eight-episode limited series. It is sporadically ...