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August 25, 2020
Jo Livingstone
How
Boys State
Explains Trump’s Appeal
The documentary about a political boot camp is a depressingly accurate microcosm of the American electoral circus.
July 30, 2020
Ben Schwartz
Charlie Kaufman’s Defense of Film
The screenwriter’s novel “Antkind” takes aim at the worst kind of critic.
July 24, 2020
Jo Livingstone
What the Americans With Disabilities Act Has to Teach Today’s Protesters
The forgotten intersectionality of disabilities activism
July 10, 2020
Jo Livingstone
What Was the Dive Bar?
A new movie invokes the lurid charm of the local drinking hole—and challenges our conception of what makes a documentary.
June 19, 2020
Jo Livingstone
In
Miss Juneteenth,
a Mother’s Dream Deferred
A debut film from Channing Godfrey Peoples set in Forth Worth, Texas, tenderly explores themes of beauty, family, and inequality.
June 17, 2020
Drew Magary
The Gentlemanly Hater’s Guide to
Gone With the Wind
The Hollywood classic is a soap opera and a war movie smashed together. It’s also really, really racist.
June 17, 2020
Jacob Silverman
Letting Jeffrey Epstein’s Pals Off the Hook
A new documentary and a new book about the disgraced pedophile only gesture at the upper-crust social milieu that tolerated his crimes.
June 12, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Spike Lee’s
Da 5 Bloods
Takes On the Black Trauma of Vietnam
The director’s latest is a maximalist spectacle that seems torn between comedy and tragedy.
June 12, 2020
Philippa Snow
Shirley Jackson and the Horrors of Marriage
Josephine Decker’s film “Shirley” turns a writer’s life and friendships into a gripping psychodrama.
June 2, 2020
Jo Livingstone
A Profound Experience of Art
“The Painter and the Thief” is a dispatch from the space where a man’s life and his portrait intersect.
May 22, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The Two Lives of Norma McCorvey
The documentary “AKA Jane Roe” is a lesson in how the law dehumanizes those it claims to protect.
May 20, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The Wolf House
Is a Stop-Motion Nightmare
Two artists use painstaking techniques to take on a dark episode in Chilean history.
May 19, 2020
Alex Shephard
The End of
The Trip
The fourth and final installment of the culinary travelogue takes the bromance to new heights.
May 12, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Al Capone, All-American Boogeyman
A new biopic reveals what the antihero of Prohibition can teach us today.
May 9, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Michelle Obama Won’t Save Us
“Becoming,” a new documentary, obliquely reveals the ways in which this country did the former First Lady wrong.
April 28, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Reagan, Gay Porn, and Family Secrets Star in
Circus of Books
An intimate documentary about Los Angeles’s queer history
April 1, 2020
Rumaan Alam
Woody Allen’s Memoir Is Shrouded in Secrecy. Why?
An investigation into the most toxic book of a toxic season.
March 31, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Welcome to the Zoom Party
All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom.
March 20, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Pandemic Movie of Our Time Isn’t
Contagion.
It’s
Jaws.
The 1975 Spielberg flick captures the dread of facing an invisible enemy—and the incompetence of the politicians in charge.
March 18, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Why You Should Watch Movies About Pandemics, During Pandemics
Sometimes fiction is stranger—and more revealing—than truth.
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