How Israel Spies on US Citizens

A never-shown Al Jazeera documentary on the pro-Israel lobby in the United States reveals possibly illegal Israeli spying on American citizens, and the lobby’s fear of a changing political mood.

Alain Gresh

‘White Voice,’ Blackface, and the Ethics of Representation

When is it fair to speak with someone else’s voice?

Patricia J. Williams

BlaKkKlansman’s Leap Into the Present

And in Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline, we find a protagonist plunged so deeply into her own mind that there really is no outside.

Stuart Klawans

‘If We Don’t Understand Class Struggle, We Don’t Understand Anything’

Filmmaker Ken Loach on populism, the gig economy, and the importance of transnational solidarity in his movies and beyond.

Lorenzo Marsili

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