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Merging documentary with sci-fi, this new film narrates the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian city in 1948, and imagines what it would look like if the war never happened. So the Israeli government banned it from being screened.

A gripping film about the fight to unionize workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island might be an observational documentary at heart, but this in-the-trenches portrait of grassroots organizing doesn’t leave any doubt as to whose side it's on.

Trump supporters will never go see 'The Apprentice' and anti-Trumpers won’t be able to bear two hours watching the bane of their existence rise to wealth and power. This lack of a clear audience spells an unfortunate box-office bomb.

In Hollywood, sex workers have become the ultimate girlbosses. The message is clear: there’s no need for collective empowerment when one can escape the low-wage economy by cashing in on the power of bootstrapping entrepreneurism.

As a survivor of multiple civil wars, including one brewing in her own home, the 'Till' star shows all her muscles in R.T. Thorne’s socially conscious action movie.

The greatest sin of Reagan is not its (expectedly) warped worldview, but its total lack of drama.

Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut joins a microgenre of films, from Promising Young Woman to Don’t Worry Darling, that try – and mostly fail – to capture a difficult moment

A compassionate documentary told with elegiac brushstrokes, Daughters tracks the generational trauma of incarcerated fathers.

Prisons serve as giant holding pens for people our society has come to see as subhuman. Sing Sing resists such dehumanization through a tender portrait of the creative capabilities and emotional lives of prison actors.

The controversy over Sabra, a new movie character, explained.