A sex worker in a romantic comedy isn’t new. How the Oscar-nominated film uses immigrant Brooklyn to subvert the genre? That’s different.
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.
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.
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.
In finding a new way to adapt Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Nickel Boys, director RaMell Ross changes the way we perceive the world itself.
A favorite film at the Toronto International Film Festival this year was by far M - Son of the Century directed by the talented UK filmmaker Joe Wright. It’s actually an Italian TV mini-series about the founder of fascism himself, Benito Mussolini.
In Payal Kapadia’s extraordinary film, three women in Mumbai search for connections amid the city’s vibrant and darkly alienating churn.
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