Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper" has courted a lot of controversy over the years, but the Oscar-winning war drama is ...

Sometimes, it's a good film with contentious content. Other times, it's a terrible film that tries and fails to be transgressive. One thing is certain: When a film stirs up controversy, it's quite a ...

Arthouse movies tend to challenge and provoke, but some, like Last Tango in Paris and The Devils, prove much more ...

Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange premiered, igniting controversy and eventually leading to a Best Picture nomination.

Controversy in art and cinema reveals society’s boundaries, exposing the pressure points where cultural comfort meets disruptive truth. Films that generate genuine outrage achieve something more ...

A good ending is famously hard to nail down — leave too many loose ends and you risk leaving your audience unsatisfied. Belabor the point, and it can feel overwrought. But then there are those rare ...

Levitt is a contributor for TIME. Nicholas Cage as the Carpenter in The Carpenter's Son. Levitt is a contributor for TIME. Making a horror movie about Jesus Christ was never going to be easy, though ...

The saying “never meet your heroes” has never applied to me more than when it comes to Harry Potter. As a kid, I floated along the series’ whimsy and matured alongside Harry, year by year. As an adult ...

Two new teasers for slasher remake Silent Night, Deadly Night have been released online (via Screen Rant), and they feature plenty of gruesome Christmas carnage. Though it seems tame by today's ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

The controversy stems not only from the content alone but also from its effectiveness in undermining comfortable narratives. A film’s initial controversy often overshadows its artistic merit ...