In ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ Boots Riley Shreds the Script

Nothing in Boots Riley’s directorial debut happens the way it’s supposed to.

Stuart Klawans

Almost Eden

Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace offers deep sorrow and great hope, as well as a direct line to a substratum of the American imagination.

Stuart Klawans

The Presence and Absence of Basquiat

Stuart Klawans

The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing

A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

The Nazis Among Us

Fatih Akin’s In the Fade.

Paul Hockenos

All About Pace

For all its commercial mass, Avengers: Infinity War floats along as if it were any other item on a day’s menu of diversions.

Stuart Klawans

Drifting With the Current

In the Last Days of the City is a richly sensuous film that strives to accommodate the thick, shifting layers of sight and sound that overwhelm verbal descriptions of Cairo.

Stuart Klawans

80 Days That Changed America

Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates. Two new projects explain why.

Joan Walsh

Flirtations With Anarchy

Two new films take different approaches to Joseph Stalin and Karl Marx, two major figures of modern political history.

Stuart Klawans

Don’t Play It for Laughs: A Q&A With Armando Iannucci

The filmmaker on his latest film The Death of Stalin, his own politics, and how satirists ought to respond to President Trump.

Joseph Hogan