Obie Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' new play Gloria depicts the traumatic repercussions of a life-changing event on the employees of a Manhattan magazine. To read my Hollywood Reporter theater review, click here.

The documentary The Babushkas of Chernobyl profiles the elderly women who continue to live in the Chernobyl "Exclusion Zone" despite the presence of deadly levels of radiation. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film that received its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival, click here.

-----Frank Scheck