Every so often, the characters in Barry Jenkins’ anguished and mournful “If Beale Street Could Talk” look straight at the camera and at you. In some movies, this kind of direct address can seem ...

In 2017, writer-director Barry Jenkins won a best-picture Oscar for “Moonlight,” an equal parts wrenching and rapturous chronicle of a young man experiencing first love that melded expressionism and ...

“I hope that nobody has ever had to look at somebody they love through a glass,” narrates Clementine “Tish” Rivers (KiKi Layne) as the camera pans from a close-up shot of Tish and her lover, Alfonzo ...