"As historians, we're always worried about what (movie) people do, but I was moved by (Belle)," she says. "At first I thought I might have done other things with it but now I think they actually ...

Amma Asante’s Belle is like a Jane Austen novel spiked with an extra shot of social conscience. It’s based on the true story of a mixed-race 18th-century woman named Dido Elizabeth Belle who ...

This movie painting, unlike the original, has no effervescence or energy; it harbors no complicated secrets. And it certainly doesn't show a young black woman in a turban. Belle may have been ...

No, she isn't the latest fictional Disney princess to try to sing her way to the hearts of movie-goers. She is Dido Elizabeth Belle, and she was very much a real person. She is also the subject of ...

The movie packs a lot in, and the quick pace of early scenes can feel like running on a treadmill, but “Belle” settles into a nice rhythm. It ends up having all the requisites of a period ...

In the less harrowing but equally fascinating “Belle,” also based on a true story, class trumps race in 18th century England as the mixed-heritage title character is saved from the most brutal ...

In the terrific costume drama “Belle,” an 18th-century English lord waylays a young Anglo-African woman at a garden party. He asks if she has slept with his milksop brother. He sneers that he ...