Don’t Cancel Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer! Don’t Cancel Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer!
Far from promoting homophobia, the classic holiday special celebrates the fellowship of outsiders.
Nov 27, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Desperation and Hope Amid the Wuhan Outbreak Desperation and Hope Amid the Wuhan Outbreak
A director of 76 Days, a documentary on the harrowing first days of the Covid-19 crisis, finds compassion amid the suffering.
Nov 27, 2020 / Q&A / Nation contributor
The Horrors of Charlie Kaufman The Horrors of Charlie Kaufman
His latest existential love story, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, reveals the limits of his work.
Nov 18, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
Aaron Sorkin’s Inane, Liberal History Lesson Aaron Sorkin’s Inane, Liberal History Lesson
Why his reformist retelling of the Chicago Seven fails to tell the real story of the leftists on trial.
Nov 3, 2020 / Charlotte Rosen
Why You Should Be Watching the Film ‘Z’ Right Now Why You Should Be Watching the Film ‘Z’ Right Now
Costa Gavras’s classic antifascist thriller reminds us that the moment of reckoning constitutes not the end of the story, but the beginning.
Nov 3, 2020 / Margaret Spillane
Michael Apted’s Flawed but Brilliant Epic of British Social Life Michael Apted’s Flawed but Brilliant Epic of British Social Life
The Up series was meant to investigate inequities of British class. It also ended up telling a different story as well.
Nov 2, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Susan Pedersen
Why I Hope Trump Does Not Watch ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Why I Hope Trump Does Not Watch ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
We don’t need the president to get any more ideas in his addled mind about how to punish American cities and activists.
Oct 30, 2020 / Jon Wiener
What the Berlin Wall Means to a New Generation What the Berlin Wall Means to a New Generation
Its fall once represented the enduring spirit of American freedom. A new documentary shows how that myth is being undone.
Oct 22, 2020 / Sophia Steinert-Evoy
Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7 Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7
The centrist filmmaker captures the drama of the 1960s, but tries too hard to make radicals palatable to contemporary liberals.
Oct 21, 2020 / Jeet Heer
The Myths of Martin Scorsese’s Mob Magnum Opus The Myths of Martin Scorsese’s Mob Magnum Opus
Glenn Kenny’s critical study of Goodfellas untangles the complicated impact of the 1990 film.
Oct 14, 2020 / Adam Nayman