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Director Mary Bronstein and star Rose Byrne trap their audience in a tormented mother's mind. It's spectacularly exhausting.

This week brings a deluge of fall festivals and Halloween events, plus Howard University's 101st Homecoming.

In its new season, a great supporting cast (and some sly cameos) supercharge the delightful meta rom-com starring Adam Brody and Kristen Bell.

In the latest reimagining of Mary Shelley's classic, the moral is the story.

The rock-and-roll biopic is a cursed form. "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" is an attempt to make a few fixes.

A snapshot of popular books.

First the White House ordered up a costly political exhibition. Then reelection officials told the Smithsonian to wall off a "controversial" voting rights show, a curator later recalled.

In an art heist, selling can be more difficult than stealing. Art crime experts explain what happens after a theft and why criminal groups have turned to precious metals.

Kevin Federline's new book "You Thought You Knew" alleges that Britney Spears routinely put her children in danger.

Staff members at the Anthem, Lincoln Theatre, the Atlantis and the 9:30 Club presented petitions to production company I.M.P. on Monday. They criticized conditions and wages at the locations.