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The Big Screen

The Big Screen: The Farewell

By Soraya Nadia McDonald
July 11, 2019
Lulu Wang’s film leaves you marveling at sincerity, selflessness, and grace

The Big Screen: The Chambermaid

By Lawrence Garcia
June 24, 2019
Lila Avilés’s natural filmmaking talents are on full display from the jump

The Big Screen: The Last Black Man in San Francisco

By Stuart Klawans
June 6, 2019
Joe Talbot’s lovely, quasi-Dickensian film tells the story of two friends adrift in a changing world

Too Late to Die Young

By José Teodoro
June 3, 2019
Dominga Sotomayor’s third feature is a study in tumultuous transition

The Big Screen: Booksmart

By Cassie da Costa
May 23, 2019
In Olivia Wilde’s debut feature, two overachieving best friends are trapped in a brave new adolescent world where the hot, popular people are also brilliant

The Big Screen: Charlie Says

By Madeline Whittle
May 15, 2019
Helter skelter: Mary Harron’s account of the infamous murders and their aftermath foregrounds the women’s experience in all its complexity

Short Take: Dogman

By Justin Stewart
April 11, 2019
Matteo Garrone's latest, in theaters April 12, illustrates the ruinous effects organized crime can have on even its most puppyish bit players

The Big Screen: Peterloo

By Shonni Enelow
April 3, 2019
Speaking of freedom: Mike Leigh’s new film, opening April 5, is theatrical in the most classical and least pejorative sense

The Big Screen: Ash Is Purest White

By Abby Sun
March 14, 2019
Jia Zhangke's latest, in theaters March 15, is a thankful return to the director's strengths

The Big Screen: Gloria Bell

By Molly Haskell
March 7, 2019
Julianne Moore's Gloria is an emblem of a single woman triumphantly navigating middle age