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The most remarkable part of this film is the irony of how it lands in the political moment: “Brave New World” features a Black iteration of the quintessential American superhero a month into an administration dedicated to eliminating diversity.

“What is most important is not what people with unbridled power can impose on us, but rather on what we can do as human beings, as political actors.”

Despite Emilia Pérez’s mixed reviews and poor audience reactions, Hollywood handed the musical 13 Oscar nominations in the hopes of proving its progressive bona fides. Then old tweets from its star surfaced.

No Other Land, an award-winning documentary about the dispossession of Palestinians in the West Bank, still hasn’t found a distributor in the US.

In a time of crisis, the Academy is offering a bulwark of humane consensus, though its blind spots remain.

"We are not belonging to anybody or to any party. We are artists, filmmakers from Gaza, who want to tell our stories to the world because what’s going on is not fair. We want the people to understand."

Political cinema can sometimes be too highbrow for a mass audience. But in the 1960s and early '70s, French-Greek director Costa-Garvas showed that films with a revolutionary message can also be popular.

Adrien Brody stars as a talented architect who flees postwar Europe to meet his match in America, a power-hungry industrialist played by Guy Pearce.

An opening scene in the documentary shows Dane flipping through the pages of a massive looseleaf binder that contains her entire FBI Red Squad files.

James Mangold’s biopic "A Complete Unknown" follows the rise of the era-defining star Bob Dylan with Chalamet brilliantly embodying his shapeshifting allure.