Kenneth Turan Movies

The story of American film criticism.

The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical...

On the 35th anniversary of the release of the landmark film "The Godfather," (March 15, 1972) we look back at the time and place of the film's...

Join Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pantoliano, director Andrew Davis and their collaborators in this stirring look at the creation of one of...

Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does...

The outrageous insider's look at the creation of a cult classic.

The struggle of releasing "Brazil" in the United States of America is examined in this Criterion documentary.

ONLY IN THEATERS, a film by actor/director Raphael Sbarge, is an intimate and moving journey taken with the Laemmle family, spanning nearly three...

Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.

A documentary film about three generations of female Jewish comedians and the complexity and challenges of their relationship to comedy, Judaism, and...