Credits: Directed by Ming Liu, starring Fred Hechinger, Lynn Hung and Joshua De Jesus. Rating/runtime: R for language and brief sexuality; 115 minutes. How to watch: In theaters Friday. Note: In ...

During a dark moment in Bing Liu’s “Preparation for the Next Life,” our protagonist, Aishe (Sebiye Behtiyar), seeks guidance in a place she did not think she’d return to: a mosque. An undocumented ...

Understandably, Bing Liu is still on cloud nine over his storybook run at the end of the 2010s. Then, in 2019, Liu received an Oscar nomination for best documentary, as well as a Peabody Award. Thus, ...

(Left to right) Fred Hechinger as Skinner and Sebiye Behtiyar as Aishe in 'Preparation for the Next Life.' Undocumented immigrants and society’s reliance on their labor, and the failures of how we ...

The last few years have been an exciting time for that incredible part of the Venn diagram where book lovers and cinephiles collide. From feature-length productions to episodic series, it seems like ...

"If there's something that you wanna do, you better do it today... You have no idea what's gonna happen tomorrow." Indeed – that's the truth right there. Orion Pictures and Amazon MGM Studios has ...

Every once in a while a film comes along starring an actor you have never seen before, who beguiles the screen and blows an audience away. Bonus points if they can do this without even raising their ...

During a dark moment in Bing Liu’s “Preparation for the Next Life,” our protagonist, Aishe (Sebiye Behtiyar), seeks guidance in a place she did not think she’d return to: a mosque. An undocumented ...