Justin Chang

In this endearing farce, Kristen Stewart plays a woman planning to meet her girlfriend's family and propose marriage. The problem? The girlfriend's never actually come out to her folks.

Steve McQueen has made searingly powerful films about historical injustice, from slavery in the American South to a 1981 hunger strike in a Northern Irish prison. But only now has he dramatized the experiences of Black women and men in the U.K., specifically the West Indian neighborhoods of London where he grew up

Justin Chang says Ammonite, the new film starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, is sort of like a British Brokeback Mountain, only a lot more explicit and with a much happier ending.