From Breaking Bad to Mad Men, many of the greatest television dramas have excelled as outstanding character studies.

Every once in a while, there’s a big-budget movie worth seeing in a theater. Although the new “Oppenheimer” biopic has a liberal slant, it eschews petty, simplistic narratives aimed at deconstructing ...

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – On Swift Horses centers on three characters during the 1950s, and while the actors do an admirable job, the story fails to reveal any amount of depth to the characters’ ...

It’s the sort of illuminating, illustrative scene that stands out in a curious character study — because “The Smashing ...

Frank Dillane, starring as a recovering addict in London, elevates this character study, Harris Dickinson’s feature directing debut.

Controversy has surrounded “The Whale,” a character study of a reclusive man hundreds of pounds overweight, with director Darren Aronofsky having to defend both the handling of the obese character and ...

Bruce Springsteen‘s “Nebraska” begins with a fictionalized bit of court testimony, delivered by mass murderer Charles Starkweather to the judge who’s about to sentence him to death. “I saw her standin ...

The jump is filmed in such chilly long shot that you very nearly wouldn’t notice it happening, if not for the brilliant aquamarine overcoat of the jumper, hurling herself from a busy pedestrian bridge ...

Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past." Send an email to Jarrett Every once in a while, there’s a ...