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Boots Riley’s film, Sorry to Bother You, roasts racial capitalism and issues an unapologetic call for revolution.
Morris on his new film and what he thinks of the man who likened himself to Darth Vader and Satan.
Happy End is the culmination of Haneke’s obsession with how technology mediates our desires.
The movie, unique for its Black star power, depends on a shocking devaluation of Black American men.
The monotony of slow cinema defamiliarizes our world and enables us to see it critically.
A new book takes on the titans of twentieth-century cinema, fetishes and all.
Tilda Swinton, icon of indy cinema, is masterful in Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash.
The Wonders subverts the typical female coming-of-age story.
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