Belle Movie. By. Chris Nashawaty. Chris Nashawaty. Chris Nashawaty is a former senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2019. EW's editorial guidelines. Published on May 30, 2014 04 ...

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 t… ...

In last year’s biographical “12 Years a Slave,” race trumped class as Solomon Northup — a free, educated, middle-class black man living in 19th century New York — found himself dragged ...

Belle: Its inspiration is glorious — the movie, not quite By Stephanie Zacharek. May 15, 2014 at 4:00 am ...

In "Belle," however, she gets, and seizes, the chance to hold down a movie all on her own. She's got a more-than capable supporting cast to help in that regard, from Tom Wilkinson to Matthew Goode ...

Fans of romantic period drama have something to tide them over until the next Jane Austen adaptation. Set in 1769, “Belle” announces its intentions straightaway with a heartfelt reunion ...

One of the first European portraits to show a black subject on an equal eyeline with a white aristocrat forms a huge part of this drama.