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Inside Man

By Nick Pinkerton
May 1, 2020
The pandemic seclusion changes how each of us is touched by movies. Nick Pinkerton reaches out

I Think We’re Alone Now

By Devika Girish
May 1, 2020
With no theater to step into, Devika Girish reflects on the options for connecting with others and with cinema

What Could Go Wrong?

By Imogen Sara Smith
May 1, 2020
With the miraculous About Endlessness, the living pictures of Roy Andersson heave a melancholy sigh over the human condition

The Power & the Gory

By Manny Farber & Patricia Patterson
March 3, 2020
In this classic 1976 essay, the two critics take on Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver

Not Buying It

By Michael Koresky
March 2, 2020
As films and film culture face brutal and witless change, love of the art form can be radical and sustaining

Coin of the Realm

By Clinton Krute
March 2, 2020
In Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, friendship meets commerce in a poignant portrait of two outsiders on the newly settled American frontier

Rise Up!

By Ela Bittencourt
March 2, 2020
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s Brazilian epic Bacurau sets the world on fire with an invigorating and audacious story of resistance that feeds off of pulp and politics

In Living Memory

By J. Hoberman
March 1, 2020
Thomas Heise’s aching archival essay Heimat Is a Space in Time listens to the voices of a family across the 20th-century cycles of destruction and rebuilding

Letter to an Unknown Decade

By Devika Girish
January 21, 2020
Becoming a critic in an era of burgeoning possibility and unsettling futures

The Decade in Experimental Film

By Jordan Cronk
January 14, 2020
Fabric of time: an overview of a tumultuous era of moving image works