Tag: film

Columns

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?

Cold War Fever

Hannah Gais

March 19, 2018

"Red Sparrow" is another in a long line of Cold War spy stories that feature the Russians as our natural enemies.

Fear of a Black Universe

Kaila Philo

February 21, 2018

Can Marvel's Black Panther carry the torch of Black radicalism?

Simulacra, Inc.

Jonathon Sturgeon

February 01, 2018

“Disneyfication” used to mean sanitization and infantilization. Now, Disney comes to represent nothing less than the smooth functioning of media capitalism.

Panic in Textopolis

Nathaniel Friedman

November 22, 2017

Roundly criticized, yet supposedly anodyne, "The Emoji Movie" is a capitalist trojan horse for the grade school set.

The Trash of the System

Dan Duray

November 20, 2017

Is the art world total bullshit? Two new films offer an enthusiastic, "Yes!"

The Miseducation of Lady Bird

Lauren Oyler

November 15, 2017

Greta Gerwig's much-praised "Lady Bird" puts us all in a teenage wasteland.

Signs and Blunders

Judy Berman

November 08, 2017

Martin McDonagh's "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" finds moral complexity where it needed moral certitude.

Spielberg’s Children

Jonathon Sturgeon

November 02, 2017

In the HBO special "Spielberg," the subject is hard to know but it's not hard to know why: it all goes back to his childhood.