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Susan Sontag’s 1974 essay about Leni Riefenstahl and fascist aesthetics displayed the critic at her most stiflingly moralistic and aristocratic.
A new book looks back on the making of Billy Wilder’s American classic.
If leading media critics don’t expect much, filmmakers won’t deliver much.
Robert Altman’s ‘Nashville’ is fifty.
In Hereditary and Midsommar, Aster's characters search for their place in the world—and can only find it by embracing evil.
Before Han Solo and Indiana Jones, there was another Harrison Ford, a star of silent cinema.
Disney’s awful new Snow White adaptation fails to recreate or even understand the story it is trying to tell.
The Blues Brothers (1980) fostered a renewed appreciation of some of the best music America has ever produced.
‘Rebel Without a Cause’ remains a landmark classic, seventy years after its release.
Despite serious flaws, ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ is much better than Marvel’s recent offerings. Perhaps the franchise may have turned the corner.
Many of the people involved in Uberto Pasolini’s new screen adaptation of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ are intimidatingly talented. It’s a pity, then, that the film is such a disaster.
Just six months after it was released by Netflix, Anna Kendrick’s feminist film about a real serial killer already looks like an ideological relic.
Éric Rohmer’s films demand patience and close attention, but they are immensely rewarding for those able to tolerate the absence of spectacle.
Alexandre Dumas’s novel is by turns an adventure story, a paean to bourgeois values, and a Greek epic. No wonder it continues to fascinate.
With ‘Emilia Pérez,’ Jacques Audiard created—intentionally or unintentionally—a subversive assault on every plank of the current transgender credo.