
Black Bag: Not Much to See Here
Black Bag is being hailed by critics as highly sophisticated cinematic fare — rather than an unambitious rush job by a talented director eager to move on to his next, similarly unsatisfying project.

Black Bag is being hailed by critics as highly sophisticated cinematic fare — rather than an unambitious rush job by a talented director eager to move on to his next, similarly unsatisfying project.

We spoke with Paige Kreisman, who’s running as the first-ever trans candidate for the Oregon state legislature. She’s a military veteran and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Her message: “We need to engage in the politics that matter to working-class people.”
David Cronenberg’s first three films track the progress of epidemics “from the perspective of the disease.” What they reveal is a North American society already on the brink of disaster.

The new film The President’s Cake is both entertaining and compelling, but only if you know little about Iraq.

Shinzō Abe is pushing to open up Japan's restrictive immigration system. But his reforms would serve the interests of business, not immigrant workers.

Beloved actor Maggie Smith died yesterday at 89. To understand her brilliance, look no further than her complex performance in the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

“Don’t start a family — it’s bad for the planet.” The latest bad take on climate change forgets one little thing: whether or not you have a kid, the fossil fuel industry will still be there.

The new corporate thriller Fair Play depicts an intra-office relationship gone sour — but asks audiences to relate to the relationship struggles of the 0.1%.

Compromising on abortion rights has the potential to undermine the entire left project.
As standards of living fall at the bottom and rise at the top, the only thing to do is watch TV about the trivial problems of the phenomenally rich.

“Lean In” feminism doesn’t seem to have the purchase it did a few years ago. Maybe that’s because it is so obviously irrelevant to the lives of the vast majority of women, who need a union and decent pay, not a female boss.

It's time to stop pretending that the same people fighting white supremacists are somehow exactly like them.

Before disgraced New York governor Andrew Cuomo was outed as a sexist boss, he was an innovator in the faux feminist space, having a fake political party — the Women’s Equality Party — for the sole purpose of destroying his political enemies.

Sidney Poitier was more than an icon for his civil rights activism and for “paving the way” for black actors to follow. He was a master of his craft, and one of the greatest performers of all time.

Collective action is the best avenue to fight sexual harassers like Harvey Weinstein.

On this day in 1907, 10,000 New York families led by socialist teenager Pauline Newman — the “East Side Joan of Arc” — began a historic rent strike.

New York mayor Eric Adams and the city’s transit authorities have launched a zealous crackdown on “farebeating.” It’s exactly the wrong policy for a time of towering inequality and climate transition. Public transit should be free to all.

Fifty years ago, police and military forces massacred hundreds of students in Mexico City, sparking a brutal dirty war in Mexico for which no one was ever brought to justice. Andrés Manuel López Obrador could change this.

The film adaptation of Poor Things darkly and effectively satirizes the depredations of capitalism and its abuses of technology in Victorian England. But like its source material, its critiques have universal relevance.

John Adams and Peter Sellars’s Girls of the Golden West is bland, poorly staged liberalism.