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" Wouldn’t people have understood precisely who he was?  The answer is simple:  Yes, they understood who he was, and they did not care--until two things happened. First, he fell out of style. And second, the brutality of the man became undeniable."

In Wonka, Timothée Chalamet dons the eccentric chocolatier’s purple jacket in yet another film adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This one is playful and harmless, but it can’t touch the 1971 original movie.

The history and thought of the artist Anselm Kiefer is threaded throughout this exceptional documentary from Wim Wenders.

‘American Symphony’: The singer-musician-composer writes his magnum opus while his wife battles cancer in a moving ode to love, creativity, and the art of survival.

The 'I Am Not Your Negro' director’s adaptation of a 2019 ProPublica investigation effectively connects one family’s story with the larger scourge of legal Black land theft.

Netflix documentary 'Stamped from the Beginning' takes Ibram X Kendi’s best-selling book and explores the question ‘what’s wrong with Black people?’ tracing racism throughout American history.

In “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” the desire for home is at once existential and literal, a matter of self and safety, being and belonging. This is, of course, part of the story of being black in the United States.

Director Kaouther Ben Hania restages pivotal moments from a family’s life telling the story of a Tunisian woman who has four daughters, two of whom disappeared in 2015 to join ISIS in Libya.

Roger Ross Williams cinematic tour de force proceeds to tell the story of racism through the colonial period up to today’s Black Lives Matter struggles against police brutality and more.

Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s best-selling Killers of the Flower Moon explores the rot beneath the myth of American exceptionalism.