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Cinema With a Roof Over its Head

By Kent Jones
July 16, 2019
In this 1999 essay, Kent Jones makes a case for Hou Hsiao-hsien's “difficult” films of the ’90s

Divided We Fall

By Monica Castillo
July 8, 2019
For Third World Cinema Corporation, surviving as an independent creative force was only one of many challenges

Lonesome Trails

By Nicolas Rapold
July 1, 2019
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood yearns for the liberating powers of storytelling and finds flickers of life in painted sunsets and broken dreams

Feel the Love

By Shonni Enelow
July 1, 2019
Thirty years after Do the Right Thing, the revolutionary acting legacy of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee still yields lessons to learn beyond realism

Crossing Over

By Dennis Lim
July 1, 2019
A prize-winning triumph at Cannes, Mati Diop’s Dakar-set debut feature Atlantics confirms an oeuvre of elemental immediacy and dreamlike exile

Notes from Underground: Peter Whitehead

By Henry K. Miller
June 18, 2019
The filmmaker, who passed away last week, wrestled with—and embodied—the contradictions of the ’60s counterculture

On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Ermanno Olmi

By Deborah Young
June 6, 2019
Ermanno Olmi, the subject of a complete retrospective opening June 14 at Film at Lincoln Center, is one of cinema’s great spiritual artists

Write What You Know

By Devika Girish
June 4, 2019
Cheerfully on point, workplace comedy Late Night plays out complex issues with the easy candor of its star, Mindy Kaling

Free to Be You and Me

By Soraya Nadia McDonald
May 6, 2019
In Jordan Peele's Us, the doubled characters of Adelaide and Red pose vexing questions about assimilation in America

Truth or Consequences

By Aliza Ma
May 1, 2019
With Non-Fiction, Olivier Assayas sets his galaxy brain to work on the shifting sand and mirages of the vaunted digital age