At the center of Now Return Us to Normal is the desire to understand the trauma of so-called “wilderness schools," remote camps built around the shaky principl...
Upon sitting down to write about House of Gucci, I thought I’d open with a quote. There had to have been some line, however peripheral, that stuck. That wasn’t...
In the new documentary Factory to the Workers, the men and women of a doggedly socialist metal factory in northern Croatia struggle facing up to the realities ...
I wonder when we'll grow numb to movies about the COVID-19 crisis. Anyone saying they already have is either lying or living a life of privilege wherein the co...
Throughout King Richard, I kept waiting for a flashback. The thing about biopics is that even the good ones tend to be overstuffed, bogged down by an incessant...
Lee Haven Jones’ slow-burn eco-horror The Feast may feature extended conversations around the dinner table about wealth inequality and the ecological damage of...
I'm not sure there's a more textbook example of police overreach and excessive force than the one depicted in David Midell's The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain...
As the face (sometimes) and voice (always) of an amuse-bouche of TV shows, film criticism (in his column for Sight and Sound), and documentaries over the last ...
Directed by former NHL videographer Steven Hoffner, The Cannons follows a year in the life of the Fort Dupont Cannons, one of the nation’s first Black hockey t...
The once-prestigious Jason Reitman has remarked that after five consecutive box office bombs he felt the need to make his own Ghostbusters to finally confront ...