Death to All Superheroes
Batman is a fascist. Superman is dead. I'm bored.
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Nobody Wants Some
Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! assumes we'd all like to return to the days when the boys ruled campus.
Fake Controversy, Terrible Comedy
The new Ghostbusters isn’t a feminist triumph. It’s just a bad movie.
The Romance of American Liberalism
Grading a century of liberal film presidents.
Carrie Fisher (1956–2016)
What we liked about Carrie Fisher was that she seemed inclined to tell the truth, and almost nobody does that, certainly not Hollywood stars.
Seventeen Soviet Films
The October Revolution unleashed cinematic brilliance that even decades of political censorship couldn’t extinguish.
Against Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep’s speechifying at the Golden Globes was the worst thing to happen since Trump’s election.
The Uncanny City
A new translation of the 1970s horror novel The Twenty Days in Turin is an eerily resonant read today.
A Rough Night at the Opera
John Adams and Peter Sellars’s Girls of the Golden West is bland, poorly staged liberalism.
The Not-So-Beguiled
Sofia Coppola’s new film gets rid of everything that made the original interesting.
His Finest Hour
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is short, action-packed, and not as bad as it could have been!
Year of the Zombie
George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead showed a new society devouring the old.
The Man in the Neighborhood
Fred Rogers was a wonderful human being who tried to use his influence for good. I just couldn't stand his show.
“Crazy” Anticapitalism
Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You captures the crude madness that we live in every day under capitalism.
BlacKKKlansman Is Both Awkward and Enthralling
BlacKKKlansman is a messy, unfocused film. But it's also one of Spike Lee's best.
Klass and Kids’ Films
Disney-Pixar vs. Laika
The Monster and the Final Girl
The new Halloween is a serviceable remake of a truly great horror film.
The Specter of Capital
How the housing crash got us believing in ghosts again.
The British Royals Have Always Been Scum
Despite generations of imperial murder, torture, rape, and plunder, the British ruling class still gets the brown-nose treatment in historical depictions. Not so in The Favourite, where the royals are shown as the disgusting creatures they were and still are.
Beale Street’s Tragedy Made Gorgeous
In If Beale Street Could Talk, the ugliness of oppression and persecution stand in tense contrast with Barry Jenkins' lush, color-drenched cinematography.