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August 8, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Is
Detroit
’s Violence Gratuitous?
Kathryn Bigelow’s new historical drama shows a director obsessed with the moment of death.
August 7, 2017
Emily Atkin
Al Gore’s Carbon Footprint Doesn’t Matter
Conservatives say environmentalists are hypocrites if they consume more energy than the average American. It's a deceitful, disingenuous argument.
August 2, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Love Among the Modernists
Kogonada’s spectacular "Columbus" is the John Cho vehicle we have been waiting for.
July 31, 2017
Clio Chang
The Emoji Deserves Better Than
The Emoji Movie
Perhaps the greatest crime of this widely panned movie is that it thinks emojis are for kids.
July 27, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Charlize Theron, On Ice
Theron delivers in 'Atomic Blonde,' a kinetic punch-up dressed up as a spy thriller.
July 24, 2017
Emily Atkin
The Troubling Return of Al Gore
"An Inconvenient Truth" turned the former vice president into a climate hero. Will he reclaim the mantle with "An Inconvenient Sequel"? Many activists in the environmental movement hope not.
July 15, 2017
Jeet Heer
We Are Living in the Coen Brothers’ Darkest Comedy
2008's "Burn After Reading" strikingly resembles the bumbling plot of Trump's Russia scandal, but also captures how amorality leads to treason.
July 13, 2017
Jo Livingstone
The Gorgeous Stupidity of
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Luc Besson’s latest is a pyrotechnic extravaganza that is light on the human element.
July 12, 2017
Jeet Heer
Like Batman, Mark Zuckerberg is a master of the surprise drop-in.
July 5, 2017
Magazine
Christian Lorentzen
Phantom Pains
The spirit of wounded masculinity haunts America in 'A Ghost Story.'
July 5, 2017
Moira Donegan
The Watermelon Woman
Shows the Power of Gay History
Twenty years after its release, Cheryl Dunye's black lesbian masterpiece is as revealing as ever.
July 2, 2017
Jeet Heer
How Democrats Can Defeat Trump and Restore Public Trust in the Government
History shows that the opposition needs the antithesis of the president.
June 23, 2017
Christian Lorentzen
The Beguiled
: Not Shy About Violence
Sofia Coppola's film evolution from the "Virgin Suicides" to a dreamily-stylized Civil War drama.
June 23, 2017
Clio Chang
What Killed Gawker? Maybe It Was Capitalism.
A new Netflix documentary about the Gawker-Hulk Hogan trial explores the larger forces that have upended the media industry.
June 21, 2017
Alex Shephard
Natural Born Buddies: The Shared Ideology of Oliver Stone and Vladimir Putin
The new documentary about the Russian strongman exposes a thematic vein that runs through Stone's entire body of work.
June 21, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Rachel Weisz, at Her Luminous Best
In "My Cousin Rachel," Weisz plays a mysterious woman seen through the eyes of an innocent young man.
June 16, 2017
Jo Livingstone
What Happened to the Scary Summer Horror Movie?
"The Mummy" and "It Comes at Night" reveal a more postmodern approach to the genre, at the expense of actual fright.
June 7, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Hidden Beneath a Hockey Rink, a Silent Film Treasure Trove
A new documentary pieces together long-lost footage from the past, giving new life to stories that had been forgotten.
June 6, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Wonder Woman
Is Propaganda
Why debating the “feminist” stakes of a movie about American military ideology is a laughable prospect.
June 2, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Why
Stalker
Is the Film We Need Now
A new restoration of Andrei Tarkovksy’s 1979 classic functions as a contemporary parable of environmental politics.
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