One of the best movies of the past year ... The best thing in “Fences” is the talk that floats free from the drama—the opening chat between Troy and Bono on the back of the garbage ...

His latest project, the film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Fences,” is being lauded ... he wasn’t worried about the movie due to the play’s success, but ...

“This movie” is an adaptation of his 1983 stage masterwork “Fences,” which Wilson had been working on for so long that it at one time had cast a red-hot Eddie Murphy … as a teenage characte ...

“Fences,” August Wilson’s heartfelt, rough-hewn play about a working-class black family in postwar Pittsburgh, had its debut in 1983 but feels exceptionally relevant today. Its themes of ...

The movie of Fences doesn’t need Hollywood bells and whistles. This writer, this director and these actors are all the magnificence required to grab your attention and hold it. The time is 1957.