Stephen Kearse

When Netflix co-produced Kirby Dick’s 2006 documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, an exposé of the mysterious and powerful Motion Picture Association of America, it was the perfect alliance. With its lack of a rating, the documentary was likely fated for a limited theatrical ...

In Us, Jordan Peele’s evokes a long history of American violence—without naming its victims and beneficiaries.

Given its emphasis on revenge, any real differences between Eminem’s music and a CNN-bashing Trump tweet are razor-thin.

The burbs have inspired iconic horrors in the past, from shopping zombies to mechanized housewives, so why does suburban gothic in 2017 lack oomph?

Men in war films experience war. Women in these films watch war, present but absent.

Ghost in the Shell disassembles everything interesting about the series and rearranges the parts in the dumbest, most disorienting configuration.

Post-blackness has retreated from public discourse. And now "post-truth" has become the latest empty idea in search of a meaning. Both obscure the fact that blackness and truth are always under siege.