Features

The Great Recession

By Shonni Enelow

September 6, 2016

Restrained but resilient, a style of acting has taken hold that speaks to an era’s anxieties

Shooting the Messenger

By Eric Hynes

August 23, 2016

A critic discovers that the nonfiction film experiments of today read a lot like the  New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s

Film as Art: Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick

By Richard Combs

August 17, 2016

We'll meet again: an extensive U.K. exhibition of multimedia work plays with the notion of the Kubrickian

You’re the One for Me, Fatty

By Scott Eyman

July 11, 2016

Fast and bulbous: in early shorts costarring a young Buster Keaton, the notorious slapstick comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was able to show off his full range of talents

The Weight of the World

By Andrew Chan

July 5, 2016

Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing lets us feel the bare fact of existence for people caught in time’s tide

Hiding in Plain Sight

By Nick Davis

July 5, 2016

The casual complexity and low-key intensity of Kristen Stewart

Beyond These Gates

By Ashley Clark

July 5, 2016

Overlooked and stereotyped, black performers of the silent era today stand out for their talents

Heavenly Host

By Max Nelson

July 5, 2016

For more than 50 years, Nathaniel Dorsky has been welcoming viewers into a gracious empire of light

Tough Love: Alan Clarke

By Graham Fuller

June 27, 2016

Revolution, televised: where did the pioneering British director get his Brechtian pyrotechnics?

Critical Care: Dr. Frederick Wiseman

By Matt Morrison

May 13, 2016

A doctor reflects on the views of medical treatment offered in Titicut Follies, Hospital, and Near Death