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July 27, 2016
The ‘Ghostbusters’ Trolls Were Right
In one sense: The jokes do change when the characters are women, who incite you to laugh through a graveyard of America’s bloody history.
Stuart Klawans
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July 19, 2016
A Brutal Account of Colonialism in Africa Just Showed Up in the Most Unlikely of Places: Hollywood
Bet you didn’t know the latest Tarzan movie was based on this story.
Adam Hochschild
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July 8, 2016
How the US and Israel Almost Caused Global Computer Catastrophe
In Zero Days, Alex Gibney examines the terrifying potential of cyberwarfare.
Margaret Spillane
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July 8, 2016
The Liberal Catechism
The allegory in the latest installment of The Purge is pretty clear: Election 2016.
Joshua Clover
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June 28, 2016
The Big Friendly Director
Steven Spielberg, who has never shown much interest in human-scaled cinema, makes his self-portrait three stories tall in The BFG.
Stuart Klawans
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June 20, 2016
By Screening ‘The Magnitsky Act,’ the Newseum Stood Up for the First Amendment
Should ultra-wealthy foreign nationals be able to transform their personal vendettas against foreign governments into law?
James Carden
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June 9, 2016
What Happened in California?
John Nichols on Bernie’s loss, Andrew Cockburn on Obama’s drone war, and John Powers on Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai.
Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
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June 7, 2016
Chuffah Degree Zero
Why has trivial conversation become essential in contemporary cinema?
Joshua Clover
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May 27, 2016
Confronting the Resource Curse and Civil War in the Congo
The depictions of Congolese humanity and pain in When Elephants Fight, a new documentary, make it necessary viewing for Westerners.
John Knefel
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May 27, 2016