Tag: film

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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.

I’ll Be Watching You

Lauren Carroll Harris

July 10, 2018

This week, it finally dawned on the U.S. media that the China of now is the West of tomorrow, with a small but seedy collection of reports that the waking moments of millions of Chinese are monitored, policed, scanned and logged using artificial intelligence plugged into 200 ...

Conflict Irresolution

Tom Carson

April 11, 2018

The Battle of Algiers tells us something this world’s Glenn Greenwalds don’t want to hear: torture works.

The Book of No Despair

J.W. McCormack

March 26, 2018

Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Modernist masterpiece with a new translation, makes hapless animals of us all.

As Stalin Lay Dying

John Ganz

March 20, 2018

Is The Death of Stalin too good to be true, or not true enough to be good?