Daryl McCormack as Liam in THE LESSON. Courtesy of Bleecker Street They say never meet your heroes, and the literary thriller THE LESSON offers a case in point, where a young would-be writer gets what ...

If there is a lesson of its own to take away from the thriller that is The Lesson, directed by Alice Troughton and written by Alex MacKeith, it is that less can often be more. Some of the most ...

It's the third movie to be adapted from August Wilson's 10-play series. If good intentions were all, this screen version of "The Piano Lesson" would earn high marks. But wishing doesn't make it so.

Denzel Washington's August Wilson project — the Oscar winner plans to bring all 10 of Wilson's plays to the screen — continues with "The Piano Lesson," a mixed bag of an adaptation of Wilson's 1987 ...

At heart, August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” is a ghost story. Set in 1930s Pittsburgh (other than a brief prologue in 1911 Mississippi), it’s the story of the Charles family, literally haunted by ...

Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, Alice Troughton's feature debut is a sly take on art and ego. By Caryn James Alice Troughton‘s first feature is a jewel, an exquisitely made chamber piece with ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

A tense standoff between two writers kindles familial fireworks in this wittily self-aware melodrama. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our ...