A fairly familiar critique of patriarchy from a humanist and feminist perspective, but one that’s put across with some very impressive filmmaking skills by a…
Everything here feels routine—more like an inevitability than a work of art or even a piece of entertainment.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Ken Loach's "I, Daniel Blake" wins the Palme d'Or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.
Barbara Scharres on the cats of Cannes 2016.
An article about Hillary Clinton's historic nomination as the first female presidential candidate and the most qualified
An article about the upcoming premiere of Issa Rae's HBO series, "Insecure," in Chicago.
A comparison between the recent version of "Ben-Hur" and the classic 1959 version by William Wyler.
A table of contents for Omer M. Mozaffar's four-part essay series on Islam in Western cinema.
Matt Zoller Seitz celebrates "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," now available on Criterion Blu-ray and DVD.
A review of Woody Allen's new TV series, "Crisis in Six Scenes," available via Amazon on Friday.
A look at the recent wave of revisionist fairy tales and how they address gender roles.
