Settler Terror Continues in the West Bank
Our documentary No Other Land won an Oscar, but the conditions it depicts are only getting worse.
Winter 2025
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Fragments of a New World
In Suneil Sanzgiri’s new film, the landscape remains as a last witness to the violence of colonial power.
The Damaged Soul of The Mother and the Whore
Jean Eustache’s famous elegy for a left-wing generation is, at its heart, reactionary.
The Fearlessness of Passing
Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel continues the author’s exploration of the suffocating strictures of the color line.
[March 10] Class-Conscious Cinema
A Discussion on Lapsis, with Boots Riley and Noah Hutton.
Filming the Black Belt: An Interview with RaMell Ross
Our culture is saturated with media representations of young black men. Rarely do we see their lives unfold as they do in Hale County This Morning, This Evening—as full inhabitants of their own prosaic and grand humanity.
Bisbee’s Ghosts
A forced exodus haunts a border town’s past. Can a new documentary force a reckoning?
The Many Dimensions of Black Panther
The Marvel blockbuster refuses to flatten its characters into simple heroes or villains—and that’s exactly what makes it so refreshing.
The Apocalyptic Baldwin
I Am Not Your Negro shows how James Baldwin became disillusioned about the possibility of any peaceful resolution to racism, but underplays the force of his internationalist and anti-capitalist perspective.
On the Dole with Ken Loach
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake shows the cruelties of the UK’s benefits system, but fails to challenge the idea that benefits should only go to the “deserving” poor.
Slavery on Screen 
The films about slavery that came out during the Obama years have given us more powerful and nuanced representations of slavery than we have seen before.
Indecent Exposures
Oliver Stone’s Hollywood retelling of the Snowden saga ends up depicting surveillance as little more than an inconvenience that might threaten our sex lives.
Ripped from the Headlines
Hollywood has always had a strong appetite for fact yet a curiously lax attitude in adhering to it. The typical biopic, for example, focused on celebrated figures, from Abraham Lincoln to Cole Porter, and tended to be sloppy and selective, …
Meltdowns and Ideologies
The Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred a bare two weeks after The China Syndrome opened at first-run theaters—as always, life imitating bad art. Since the dramatic center of the movie was the possibility of a meltdown, it was taken …
