'Cancel Culture,' Roaring Twenties-Style The term “cancel culture” has become hotly contested of late. Critics say it is indiscriminately used to describe different degrees of mass opprobrium produced by transgressions that range from the trivial to the criminal. Now, while mob justice is never a particularly good idea, it is certainly true that some Kevin Mims 27 Sep 2019 · 12 min read
Once Upon a Time...Film Critics Became Joyless—A Review Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself. Steven Volynets 17 Aug 2019 · 9 min read
From Academia to Hollywood: An Interview with Tony Tost Right now, I’m maybe most spooked by how a living, breathing cultural memory is seeming to evaporate. Clay Routledge 13 Jul 2019 · 21 min read
How Prophetic Was Gattaca? Gattaca was prophetic, but not quite in the way Niccol intended. George Schifini 8 Jul 2019 · 5 min read
The Conservative Manifesto Buried in 'Avengers: Endgame' If you haven’t seen Endgame yet—or if you take comfort in the delusion that Marvel is “woke”—stop reading now. Aaron Sibarium 14 Jun 2019 · 10 min read
Dragged Across Concrete—A Review In a cultural moment that has seen reputations destroyed by a single tweet, each transgression can become the entirety of a person’s character. David G. Hughes 22 Mar 2019 · 6 min read
Don't Deny Girls the Evolutionary Wisdom of Fairy-Tales Yet, this is the sort of hysteria used to justify yanking away the wonderful fun of watching Disney princess films. Remember fun? Amy Alkon 16 Dec 2018 · 7 min read
Representation and the Communitarianization of Cinema Identity has become the locus of cultural value and representation the means of its transmission. Oliver Whiskard 18 Oct 2018 · 10 min read
'The Apartment,' Authority, and Consent This is a topic of particular pertinence to our own cultural moment and it makes The Apartment a fascinating artefact worth revisiting. Matthew Stahlman 7 Feb 2018 · 10 min read