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Tag: Film

Browse our essays and reviews on film and TV.

Trump’s Space Force is a bad reboot of the old imperial fantasy of control from above.
Mark Bould

Boots Riley’s film, Sorry to Bother You, roasts racial capitalism and issues an unapologetic call for revolution.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Morris on his new film and what he thinks of the man who likened himself to Darth Vader and Satan.

Deborah Chasman, Errol Morris

Happy End is the culmination of Haneke’s obsession with how technology mediates our desires.

Francey Russell

The movie, unique for its Black star power, depends on a shocking devaluation of Black American men.

Christopher Lebron

The monotony of slow cinema defamiliarizes our world and enables us to see it critically.

Mark Bould

A new book takes on the titans of twentieth-century cinema, fetishes and all.

Jonathan Kirshner

When your father is trans, memoir is both personal and political.

Judith Levine

Tilda Swinton, icon of indy cinema, is masterful in Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash.

Alan A. Stone

Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups is lost in its own symbolism.

Alan A. Stone

In Paolo Sorrentino's Youth, the crossroads of despair and integrity.

Alan A. Stone

The Wonders subverts the typical female coming-of-age story.

Alan A. Stone
Isabel Coixet's Learning to Drive
Alan A. Stone

Michael Almereyda's Cymbeline

Alan A. Stone

Olivier Assayas's Clouds of Sils Maria

Alan A. Stone
Lav Diaz's singular approach to history is liberated from the shackles of business-oriented film.
Adam Katzman
Truth in the Films of Errol Morris.
Randolph Lewis

Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu

Alan A. Stone
Even if the facts are wrong, the feelings in Selma are right.
Alan A. Stone
Patriotism, as brilliant as the gold tridents pounded into a SEAL’s coffin lid, outshines all flaws.
Judith Levine

Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman.

Alan A. Stone

Richard Linklater's Boyhood

Alan A. Stone

Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida

Alan A. Stone

John Turturro's Fading Gigolo.

Alan A. Stone

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