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Horse sense: Boots Riley's gloriously outrageous film makes its satire sing even as it puts across a radical critique of capitalism and race in America
End of an era: the FSLC retrospective lets our contributors reappreciate the magnificent oeuvre of an Italian master who specialized in twilight moments
Like a prayer: the director of First Reformed and screenwriter of Taxi Driver surveys his career (and shows off his storytelling) at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
When will it end? On the strategies (and effectiveness) of the hard-knock stories in Nadine Labaki’s Capernaüm, Sergei Dvortsevoy’s Ayka, Matteo Garrone’s Dogman, and Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves
It’s never just one thing: on David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake, Lee Chang-dong’s Burning, Alice Rohrwacher’s Lazzaro felice, Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s Diamantino, and more
