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Kate Friend set out to make a series about the places where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared. Her pilgrimage took a curious turn.

What's most striking about the show, now in its final season, is not its hysteria but its lack of conviction.

Also: Whitney White in "Macbeth in Stride," Ani DiFranco's dramatic return, Takeshi Kitano's inventive new film, and more.

In David Cronenberg's film, billed as his most personal work, Vincent Cassel plays a grieving husband who has devised a novel way of never letting go.

The parents who exploit their kids for clicks in Netflix's "Bad Influence" want you to think they couldn't have known better.

Dancing on the deck of the Titanic.

The scholar and literary critic examines a relationship dynamic that has inspired some of the most significant, and provocative, novels of the past three centuries.

Global technology companies are becoming table stakes in the struggle to establish whatever new world order is emerging.

In "Filho," the filmmaker Tomas Ponsteen, who was adopted from Brazil, grapples with whether or not to search for his biological mother.

Even a child is unlikely to be entertained by the film's stream of Minecraft in-jokes--but fans of the director Jared Hess may find something else to excavate.