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From the New Issue

Make It Real: We the Living

By Eric Hynes
March 2, 2020
Death becomes a creative force in three Sundance films that dance at its edge

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

House of the Spirits

By Jordan Cronk
January 6, 2020
Pedro Costa returns with the masterful Vitalina Varela—quite possibly the most beautiful film of 2020

The Strength of Street Knowledge

By Craigh Barboza
September 13, 2019
Pioneering filmmaker John Singleton captured the humanity and horrors of the modern urban world

Lost and Found

By Michael Koresky
September 3, 2019
Pedro Almodóvar taps into both the anguish and the eroticism of memory in Pain and Glory, his most personal film yet

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

False Idols

By Christina Newland
June 7, 2019
David Essex’s sly, self-aware performance in That’ll Be The Day goes well beyond the usual dictates of a star vehicle

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