A Long Journey Through the Ruins of Capitalism and the Cosmos A Long Journey Through the Ruins of Capitalism and the Cosmos
On Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Brad Pitt’s astronaut adventures in Ad Astra, and more.
Oct 8, 2019 / Stuart Klawans
The Subversive Joy of ‘Hustlers’ The Subversive Joy of ‘Hustlers’
Lorene Scafaria’s box office smash is a cinematic depiction of women rebels who try to steal back what capitalism has stolen from them.
Sep 27, 2019 / Joshunda Sanders
Bless This Mess Bless This Mess
Domestic disruptions in Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go Bernadette and other recent films.
Sep 11, 2019 / Stuart Klawans
‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Is a Science Fiction Film ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Is a Science Fiction Film
Far from wallowing in nostalgia, Tarantino is using alternative history to critique conventional Hollywood endings.
Aug 23, 2019 / Jeet Heer
The Hallucinatory Violence of Quentin Tarantino’s Alternate Histories The Hallucinatory Violence of Quentin Tarantino’s Alternate Histories
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood looks back at the summer of ’69 and brings the Manson family murders into the present.
Aug 2, 2019 / Stuart Klawans
The Doldrums of Summer Moviegoing The Doldrums of Summer Moviegoing
A dispatch from our film critic on this season’s cinematic highs and lows.
Jul 29, 2019 / Stuart Klawans
The Worlds of Kathleen Collins The Worlds of Kathleen Collins
The quiet brilliance of her films and fiction was found in her ability to to place the interior and subjective in the context of the social and political.
Jul 15, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Farah Jasmine Griffin
Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five Film Captures Every Injustice in Vivid Detail Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five Film Captures Every Injustice in Vivid Detail
When They See Us, Ava DuVernay’s four-part dramatization of the story, goes farther than any of her previous work.
Jun 5, 2019 / Stuart Klawans
Suzan-Lori Parks Dares to Get Into Your Head Suzan-Lori Parks Dares to Get Into Your Head
In her recent play White Noise and a new film adaptation of Native Son, Parks probes the terrible truths of the American imagination.
May 28, 2019 / Alisa Solomon
Werner Herzog’s Curious Love Letter to Mikhail Gorbachev Werner Herzog’s Curious Love Letter to Mikhail Gorbachev
In Herzog’s latest film, Meeting Gorbachev, we end up learning a lot more about the director than about his subject.
May 24, 2019 / Elena Goukassian