Justin Chang

Paul Thomas Anderson returns to the San Fernando Valley, where he grew up, for his new film Licorice Pizza.

This is a rare dive into personal territory from a filmmaker known for directing and often starring in adaptations of Shakespeare and Agatha Christie.

Kristen Stewart doesn't go easy on Diana, but there's an underlying compassion that never wavers as we follow the Princess of Wales during an especially miserable stretch of her famously unhappy marriage.