Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part I: Abstraction Hero (1930–65) A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly. Charlotte Allen 10 Apr 2024 · 33 min read
The Delta Variant John Landis’s 1978 comedy classic ‘Animal House’ is a time capsule from an era when humor and campus politics were very different. George Case 8 Apr 2024 · 9 min read
Sex and Smashed Steel A look back at J.G. Ballard's ‘Crash’—one of the the 20th century’s greatest and most disturbingly prophetic novels. Benjamin Kerstein 2 Apr 2024 · 25 min read
Mystic Without a Church Werner Herzog’s new memoir provides a look back on the magisterial and occasionally maddening career of a cinematic visionary. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 28 Mar 2024 · 17 min read
93 Years of Shatner A tribute to an irrepressible TV star’s ability to live long and prosper. Kevin Mims 22 Mar 2024 · 21 min read
An Unlikely Cinematic Triumph Efforts to produce a worthy film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ seemed doomed to failure—until Denis Villeneuve gave us his two-part blockbuster. Allan Stratton 15 Mar 2024 · 14 min read
A Love Letter to the Theatre An interview with Sean Mathias, the director of a daring and original new film adaptation of ‘Hamlet.’ Hannah Gal 10 Mar 2024 · 12 min read
Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny Fight Fascism The animation industry was perhaps the United States’ most potent cultural weapon during World War II. Jacob Bielecki 26 Feb 2024 · 15 min read
The Best Picture Nominees, 2024 A look at the ten nominees for this year’s Best Picture Oscar. Allan Stratton 17 Feb 2024 · 17 min read
Bestseller Reparations In ‘American Fiction,’ director Cord Jefferson brings a devil-may-care effrontery to bear on the culture of self-censorship, progressive pieties, and artistic hypocrisy. Thomas Larson 24 Jan 2024 · 7 min read
Leonard Bernstein Deserved Better Than ‘Maestro’ Netflix somehow managed to turn the most talented, beloved, and complex American musician in history into a two-dimensional domestic villain. Daniel Lelchuk 16 Jan 2024 · 9 min read
To Save Us All From Satan’s Power William Friedkin’s horror classic is 50 years old. George Case 26 Dec 2023 · 7 min read
How Superhero Franchises Are Killing Original Cinema Most new movies feature neither good storytelling nor innovative filmmaking. Instead, they rely on the nostalgia of ready-made fan bases. Jacob Bielecki 7 Dec 2023 · 7 min read
History on Horseback: Napoleon Bonaparte The French emperor and military commander played a pivotal role in an epochal transformation. Ralph Leonard 4 Dec 2023 · 16 min read
Black Progress and Black Rage A new biopic about Bayard Rustin and the New York Met’s opera about the life of Malcolm X celebrate very different notions of black struggle. Joshua Muravchik 30 Nov 2023 · 8 min read
