“There comes a time when the only way you can make a statement is to pick up a gun.” When Sara Jane Moore attempted and…
Many have written and spoken about how aging differs from growing old. All manner of physical decline may await, but that doesn’t mean our love…
War stains the soul. It can haunt its victims like a specter, and the appropriately titled Ghost Trail centers on a scarred man who hovers…
Wrapped up in the question of what it means to be a good parent is the more loaded question of what it means to be…
To director Tommaso Santambrogio, to tell a story about people, you ought to tell the story of the places they inhabit. That could be why…
Director Neil Burger first formed the idea that would spawn the globe-spanning espionage thriller Inheritance during the early, claustrophobic period of the COVID-19 pandemic. “I…
Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language films have operated in a particularly confessional mode. Featuring The Room Next Door’s co-star Tilda Swinton, his 2020 short film…
The Outsiders is one of the few — possibly the only — entries in Francis Ford Coppola’s oeuvre that is widely considered a cult classic…
We have so many World War II-era films and biographical films of varying quality that for a new one to feel properly worthwhile it must…
Few films have left as influential of a legacy on their country of origin as the 2002 Brazilian classic City of God. Co-directed by Fernando…
From the 1880s until the 20th century’s final years, the Canadian government funded a system of residential schools for Indigenous children. Administered by various Christian…
We’re approaching the 2024 U.S. presidential election’s climactic stretch. We’re still processing the whiplash from a landmark sequence of events that could’ve been pulled straight…
On November 14, 2023, this year, the United States federal government released the National Climate Assessment, the latest report comprehensively spelling out the climate crisis’…
In her 1977 essay collection On Photography, Susan Sontag argued that the abundance of photographic images in our culture had begun to engender “a chronic…
Today we understand the university to be a uniquely reactive flashpoint for the major social, political, and generational battles defining the contemporary world. Yet in…
Like many films gunning to establish an immediately serious tone, Angga Dwimas Sasongko’s 13 Bombs begins with sobering news reports. One newscaster outlines Indonesia’s slow…
We live in cynical, hyperconnected times, and one remedy we rely on our cultural products to deliver now and again is genuine, unabashed sincerity. Feel-good…
Director George C. Wolfe’s biopic and period piece Rustin opens with recreations of several iconic Civil Rights-era scenes: Tougaloo College students and faculty doused with…
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is no stranger to explorations and dramatizations of injustice in her work. Journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 nonfiction book Caste: The Origins of…
Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s latest film Fallen Leaves is a continuation of his Proletariat series. The previous films — Shadows in Paradise (1986), Ariel (1988),…
Much has been said about the erosion of the Marvel Studios cinematic enterprise. Most recently, Variety published a feature depicting a media giant in crisis.…