Tag: film

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This Is Us

Stephen Kearse

April 05, 2019

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

Night at the Museum

Amber A’Lee Frost

March 20, 2019

I got screaming drunk at the KGB Spy Museum the other night. . . .

Art Killed Me

Rachel Wetzler

February 07, 2019

Velvet Buzzsaw’s superfluous gallery of grotesques.

Wrestling with the Demo(n)s

Maximillian Alvarez

January 23, 2019

As a new documentary makes clear, there is no democracy and never was. There is only struggle—here, now, always.

Gazing Downward, Looking Back

Frank Guan

January 16, 2019

The cinema of neoliberalism in South Korea and the Philippines

Cheap Thrills in the Blackout Zone

Nathan Taylor Pemberton

January 14, 2019

Rather than a searing indictment, Adam McKay's Vice is a well-intentioned homage to power itself.

Rebel Without Applause

Philippa Snow

January 10, 2019

In The House That Jack Built, Lars von Trier squanders his brilliance for shock.

Built to Flail

Ben Schwartz

December 18, 2018

Woe to any comedian tapped to host the humorphobic White House Correspondents' Dinner or the Oscars.

Thick as Thieves

Philippa Snow

November 19, 2018

In Widows, what should cause tonal whiplash is, in Steve McQueen’s hands, disquieting, exhilarating: capital-R Real.

The Price is Wrong

Angella d’Avignon

November 07, 2018

Without incisive critique or explosive insider information, the spectacle of The Price of Everything wears thin.

The Horror, the Horror

Michael Reid Roberts

October 26, 2018

With "Suspira" and "Halloween," a genre copies itself for the intellectual property era.

WorryFree™ and Always on Script

Gene Seymour

July 17, 2018

Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You faces race and abasement in a battered republic.