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In many Oscar bait movies, interracial friendships come with a paycheck, and follow the white character’s journey to enlightenment.

Four decades later, the 1979 pro-labor movie Norma Rae still holds up.

"Get Me Roger Stone" uses Stone’s story as a cipher for modern political history. It’s a horror show!

Vice is a picture that distills entire semesters worth of history, geopolitics, psychology, media theory, film studies, and military analysis into a historical comedy-drama that has netted far less attention and box office receipts than it deserved.

Hirokazu Kore-eda's Palme d’Or-winning drama about a Japanese family of crooks who lift a lost little girl from the streets is a satisfying and devastating gem.

Despite generations of imperial murder, torture, rape, and plunder, the British ruling class still gets brown-nose treatment in historical depictions. Not so in The Favourite where they are shown as the disgusting creatures they were and still are.

The poignant drama, “Capernaum,” follows a boy who runs away and winds up roaming the slums of Beirut shouldering a distressing responsibility. At its premiere at Cannes in May, the film received a 15-minute standing ovation.

This newly released film, directed by Sydney Pollack, documents Aretha Franklin's recording of the live album "Amazing Grace" over two nights in January 1972.

Oscar-winner, Alfonso Cuaron, goes into the past and pays tribute to the women who helped raise him. Cuarón has done more than break through walls of language, culture and class to craft the best movie of the year.

Las Sandinistas, a new feature-length documentary film that examines the Nicaraguan revolution of the 1980’s, arrives in theaters at a critical political juncture in which crises in Central America are once again center stage.