“Never ask for what ought to be offered,” 17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) tells her little brother in Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik’s dark and flinty Ozark fairy tale. Those are words to live ...

Daniel Woodrell, who coined the term “country noir” for his rural crime fiction and was known for his novel, “Winter’s Bone,” died on Nov. 28. He was 72. Woodrell died at his home in West Plains, ...

Daniel Woodrell, the acclaimed author of “Winter’s Bone” and other American novels that captured the essence of the Missouri Ozarks he called home, died Friday. The 72-year-old’s wife, Katie ...

A performer that best excels with blunt, acerbic characters, Lawrence is also one of the few true movie stars of her generation. When Jennifer Lawrence first exploded into stardom in the early 2010s, ...