It certainly wasn't easy. One Night in Miami opens with a montage that shows the highs and lows of the Black experience in America in the...

T.S. Eliot once wrote that what we call the beginning is oftentimes the end, while making an end is often a beginning. Pieces of a Woman,...

Mank trades in the grandeur and movie-making magic of Old Hollywood in the 1930s for something far more insidious: a look at the smarmy,...

Director Kelly Reichardt knows how to shoot nature. Her camera lingers on its many delights in rapturous color: the dew-dripping leaves,...

If there's a way to categorize Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the equal parts audacious and wistful new film streaming on Netflix, it would be...

From the blackness of a darkened stage, the spotlight is on the drummer, bare -chested, hands in air, ready to beat his tom-toms with the...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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