Women's Voices For Change

There are multiple ways to dramatize Maud Lewis’s life. In the enchanting new film 'Maudie,' Irish director Aisling Walsh and Canadian screenwriter Sherry White center instead on the artist’s unusual, at times abusive, but ultimately loving relationship with her employer-turned-husband Everett.

'Beatriz at Dinner' is so topical, dealing as it does with the great division we’re witnessing in this country between haves and have nots, conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats.

How refreshing to find a smart woman d'un certain âge as a romantic central figure in a mainstream movie.

The two series 'Will' and 'Still Star-Crossed' — in unmistakably capable hands, and complete with forbidden love and rock-and-roll — may introduce a new audience to his timeless work. Which would make for a happy ending indeed.

Thanks to digital streaming and subscription services, stories like Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid’s Tale' can find a new audience, one that doesn’t shy away from the novel’s sexuality or violence.

Jessica Chastain is luminous as Antonina. She seems to float above the ugliness and cruelty that permeates occupied Warsaw.