Steve McQueen, director of the magnetic new film Mangrove, treats injustice as if it were a personal affront to mankind. His full-fight-m...

In The Trial of the Chicago 7, the new film from Aaron Sorkin now playing on Netflix, Abbie Hoffman, one of the defendants accused of inc...

There is a scene midway through Eliza Hittman's soul-provoking new movie Never Rarely Sometimes Always that is wrenching in its simplicit...

When we discuss supernatural thrillers in our modern age, we typically talk about the special effects, the chills coming from the ability...

Shirley Jackson was known to get under the skin. Her most famous work, the short story "The Lottery," concerned a women who wakes to the ...

What's going on? With Marvin Gaye's protest music providing the jolting backdrop for Spike Lee's latest joint, Da 5 Bloods, the following...

The division of the classes has been a consistent movie theme since the cinema's early days. Charlie Chaplin's tramp came from those lowe...

I went into a screening of Taiki Waititi's Jojo Rabbit uncertain what to expect. This tale of an 11-year-old German boy talking to imagin...

There is plenty of irony in Greta Gerwig's fine adaption of Little Women. Most of it comes from the fact that while marriage and career d...

As I walked out of a movie theater on a cold winter afternoon after seeing It's a Beautiful Day, I heard a couple remark how the film was...

In Uncut Gems, the wild ride of a movie from Josh and Benny Safdie, a black opal diamond can bring mystical powers. According to one char...

To paraphrase, Friedrich Nietzsche, morality comes in two flavors. There is the Judeo-Christian-based form that favors moral kindness and...

A running joke in Rian Johnson's surprising hit mystery, Knives Out, is the fact that the members of an upper-class family in Massachuset...

The makers of Ford v. Ferrari, the high-testosterone, biographical joyride from director James Mangold, should be called out for false ad...

There are times when we are so hellbent on justice that we do an injustice instead. Richard Jewell, Clint Eastwood's latest film about a w...