Articles

Jacques Rivette: The Great Manipulator (Preview)
by Adrian Martin

Limitless Humanity: Dariush Mehrjui’s The Cow
by Nafis Shafizadeh

Detached Retina: The New Cinema of Drone Warfare
by Susan L. Carruthers

The Unpublished James Agee:
Excerpts from Complete Film Criticism: Reviews, Essays, and Manuscripts Edited
by Charles Maland

The Films of Jia Zhangke:
Poetic Realist of Globalization
by Declan McGrath

Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place as Psychodrama (Web Exclusive)
by Graham Fuller

Film Reviews

The Birth of a Nation
Reviewed by Page Laws

Weiner (Preview)
Reviewed by Robert Koehler

The Lobster
Reviewed by Jonathan Murray

Right Now, Wrong Then
Reviewed by Michael Sicinski

Our Kind of Traitor
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue

De Palma
Reviewed by Jordan Cronk

The Neon Demon (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Adam Nayman

The Academy of Muses (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Aaron Cutler

Blu-ray and DVD Reviews

Brief Encounter
Reviewed by J. E. Smyth

The Manchurian Candidate
Reviewed by David Sterritt

Kijû Yoshida: Love + Anarchism
Reviewed by Richard Porton

Only Angels Have Wings
Reviewed by Marc Eliot

The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew
& Associates
Reviewed by Christopher Sharrett

In a Lonely Place
Reviewed by Brian Neve

1916: The Irish Rebellion
Reviewed by Michael Gray

Staff Recommendations
Reviewed by Cineaste Editors

Aferim! (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by David Sterritt

Mustang (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue

The Player (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Jeremy Carr

Susan Slept Here (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue

Fitzpatrick Travel Talks Vol. 1 (1934–1946)
(Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Darragh O’Donoghue

Interviews

Portraying 1950s America on Film:
An Interview with James Schamus
by Dennis West and Joan M. West

Little Men, Big Vision: 
An Interview with Ira Sachs
by Steve Erickson

Book Reviews

Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture
Reviewed by Chris Fujiwara

Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film
Reviewed by P. Adams Sitney

Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence (Preview)
Reviewed by Michael Sandlin

Cinemas of Paris
Reviewed by Sandy Flitterman-Lewis

Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image Reviewed by Benjamin Mercer

Hollywood Riots: Violent Crowds and Progressive Politics in American Film
Reviewed by Christopher Small

Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies Reviewed by David Sterritt

Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki
Reviewed by Adam Bingham

Departments

Editorial

The Seattle International Film Festival (Web Exclusive)
by Dennis West

Letters

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