In two portraits of seafaring religious zealots, the directors Lav Diaz and Mona Fastvold employ bold formal devices to hold ...

Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. Depicts her ...

The movies tend to do better in depicting agony over ecstasy, but The Testament of Ann Lee drops a potent depiction of the latter early on. We are in Manchester, in the early 1760s. Young Ann Lee ...

I don't think any movie has surprised me more this year than "The Testament of Ann Lee. I went into this movie blind, not knowing a single thing about it. When I left the theater, it was firmly on my ...

Filmmakers Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet are clearly fascinated by ambition. They’re fascinated, too, by dreamers — difficult dreamers, brilliant but demanding people who have plans they must fulfill ...

In an extraordinary performance, Amanda Seyfried plays the founder of the Shakers in a singular film. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site ...