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Features

Intimations of Mortality

By Nicolas Rapold
September 4, 2018
Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman’s postcard from the Midwest, detects the lengthening shadows beyond the all-American sunshine

The Paragon of Animals

By Michael Koresky
September 4, 2018
With their multi-part yarn The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen Brothers mosey on back to the Old West to survey the eternal disappointment that is man

Eat Me

By Abby Sun
September 4, 2018
In Caniba, close encounters with a cannibal and his brother lead filmmakers Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor into new realms of power, fear, and desire

Top of the World

By Paul Schrader
August 20, 2018
A golden crossroads moment in Hollywood comes alive in letters from a gutsy young critic to his brother

Moving Through Time

By Dennis Lim
August 20, 2018
With Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Bi Gan mesmerizes again with a virtuosic noir trip where experience and dreams become one

Where Are We with Bergman?

By Olivier Assayas
July 13, 2018
A filmmaker reflects on the Swedish master’s legacy in a changed world (and a world he changed)

Always Gonna Dance

By Robin Wood
July 10, 2018
A classic essay from the archives by the great Robin Wood takes a deeper look at the magic of Fred and Ginger

White Noise

By Ina Diane Archer
July 2, 2018
Boots Riley’s debut feature Sorry to Bother You busts out a satiric surrealism to express a warped racial and economic reality

It Happened Here

By Teo Bugbee
July 2, 2018
Spike Lee’s galvanizing BlacKkKlansman taps the conventions of genre to grasp the country’s legacy of hatred—and resistance

Worldly Wise

By Violet Lucca
July 2, 2018
Isao Takahata leaves behind a quietly bold legacy of emotional maturity to the sometimes infantilized realm of animation