‘If We Don’t Understand Class Struggle, We Don’t Understand Anything’ ‘If We Don’t Understand Class Struggle, We Don’t Understand Anything’
Filmmaker Ken Loach on populism, the gig economy, and the importance of transnational solidarity in his movies and beyond.
Aug 16, 2018 / Q&A / Lorenzo Marsili
In ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ Boots Riley Shreds the Script In ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ Boots Riley Shreds the Script
Nothing in Boots Riley’s directorial debut happens the way it’s supposed to.
Jul 6, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Almost Eden Almost Eden
Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace offers deep sorrow and great hope, as well as a direct line to a substratum of the American imagination.
Jun 27, 2018 / Stuart Klawans
The Presence and Absence of Basquiat The Presence and Absence of Basquiat
You’d have to go back to Bloomsbury to find another set as insular, self-promoting, self-destructive, imitated, parodied, publicized, and at last mythologized as the crowd that hun…
May 25, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing
A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.
May 17, 2018 / Khalil Gibran Muhammad
The Nazis Among Us The Nazis Among Us
Fatih Akin’s In the Fade.
May 10, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Paul Hockenos
All About Pace All About Pace
For all its commercial mass, Avengers: Infinity War floats along as if it were any other item on a day’s menu of diversions.
May 4, 2018 / Stuart Klawans
Drifting With the Current Drifting With the Current
In the Last Days of the City is a richly sensuous film that strives to accommodate the thick, shifting layers of sight and sound that overwhelm verbal descriptions of Cairo.
Apr 23, 2018 / Stuart Klawans
80 Days That Changed America 80 Days That Changed America
Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates. Two new projects explain why.
Apr 23, 2018 / Joan Walsh
Flirtations With Anarchy Flirtations With Anarchy
Two new films take different approaches to Joseph Stalin and Karl Marx, two major figures of modern political history.
Mar 30, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans