One film per year in which the unexpected friendship of a penguin deeply affects a human being dealing with emotional pain? No objection here. That’s what we get with the British offering “The Penguin ...

Steve Coogan plays Tom Michell, an English teacher in 1970s Argentina, whose small new friend makes his class a hit. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

The Penguin Lessons is a heartwarming, inspiring film set against a backdrop that is as deeply disturbing as the landscape is beautiful. The film, loosely based on true events, follows the life of a ...

“The Penguin Lessons” is more than a silly film about flightless birds. Directed by Peter Cattaneo, the film is adapted from Tom Michell’s 2016 memoir of the same name. Delving into Argentinian ...

The Gist: Buenos Aires, 1976: Tom Michell (Coogan) arrives at fancypants rich-boy educatorium St. George’s College as an explosion rocks the city a little ways off. That’s just a coup happening back ...

The unique relationship between animals and people is a territory often mined for cinematic fodder; the twist in “The Penguin Lessons,” based on the 2015 memoir by Tom Michell, is in the exoticism of ...

In the movies, bonding with a cute, helpless animal is a surefire cure for cynicism, and that's exactly what happens to world-weary English teacher Tom Michell (Steve Coogan) after he rescues a ...