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May 17, 2018
The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing
A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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May 10, 2018
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May 4, 2018
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
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April 23, 2018
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
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April 23, 2018
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
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March 30, 2018
Flirtations With Anarchy
Two new films take different approaches to Joseph Stalin and Karl Marx, two major figures of modern political history.
Stuart Klawans
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March 29, 2018
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
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March 19, 2018
A New Picture of Karl Marx
Any movie about Marx raises questions about its means of production. But maybe it’s time for a good, relatively mainstream film about anticapitalists.
Annie Julia Wyman
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March 9, 2018
Encountering Ghosts in Family Photos, Historical Dolls, and ‘Black Panther’
Mythmaking can connect the past to the present, and reveal a promised future.
Patricia J. Williams
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February 22, 2018
‘Black Panther,’ Beyond Expectations
The big-budget pop movie surprises with themes and emotions that might escape the attention of action fans but are present all the same.
Stuart Klawans