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...

Sometimes, when it comes to bad relationships, it is not about the lack of love between two people, or lack of chemistry, fidelity or...

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...

Go ahead, open up the window, stick out your head and say it three times loud: I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!...

It is a movie about choices, the wrong ones and the right ones and what do when you're not certain which are which. It is a movie about...

What's so funny about peace, love, understanding and making a really good rock movie that's not just another easy biography? The former...

This occasional series will look at overlooked films on popular streaming services -- Amazon Prime, Hulu and Netflix -- that are well...

There is delusion that means unnecessarily avoiding confronting a grimmer reality and delusion that is sometimes necessary to survive....

Depending on your view of the world, Midsommar -- the 2019 horror movie from Ari Aster, who directed the equally sinister Hereditary --...

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