The Brutalist and the Hidden Work of Architecture "The Brutalist" and the Hidden Work of Architecture
A film about survival, creativity, the hypocrisies of high art, The Brutalist tells a story about an architect who does not exploit and manipulate others to achieve his grand visi...
Dec 18, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kate Wagner
The Illusory Beauty of “Nickel Boys” The Illusory Beauty of “Nickel Boys”
An avant-garde adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel careens between questions of style and substance.
Dec 17, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
What Comes After the Apocalypse? A Q&A With Joshua Oppenheimer What Comes After the Apocalypse? A Q&A With Joshua Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer’s latest film, The End, is a Golden Age, postapocalyptic musical crying out from the depths of the earth.
Dec 14, 2024 / Peter Sellars
Warning From the Past Warning From the Past
In a new film, journalists confront a dictator.
Nov 20, 2024 / Elizabeth Becker
“Anora,” an American Fantasia “Anora,” an American Fantasia
In Sean Baker's tragicomic film of a sex worker’s brush with wealth, he evokes auteurs of yore, who focused on the social realities of the country's outcasts.
Nov 7, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Beatrice Loayza
“No Other Land” and the Brutal Truth of Israel’s Occupation “No Other Land” and the Brutal Truth of Israel’s Occupation
The unsparing documentary—one of the year’s most powerful films—has still not found a distributor in the US.
Nov 4, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Ahmed Moor
I’m an Environmentalist. That’s Why I Can’t Vote Green. I’m an Environmentalist. That’s Why I Can’t Vote Green.
Award-winning filmmaker and director of Gasland Josh Fox on why he will never vote for Jill Stein.
Nov 1, 2024 / Josh Fox
The Irrepressible Elaine May The Irrepressible Elaine May
Her films reveled in the possibility of capturing the spontaneous beauty of improvisation.
Oct 21, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Alex Kong
The Apprenticeship of Donald Trump The Apprenticeship of Donald Trump
A new film examines Trump's formative years under the tutelage of Roy Cohn.
Oct 21, 2024 / Books & the Arts / David Klion
Telling the Amazon Labor Union’s Story Telling the Amazon Labor Union’s Story
Union, a new documentary about organizing at a Staten Island Amazon warehouse, grapples with what it means to tell an underdog story without a satisfying ending.
Oct 17, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Ella Fanger