ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI: HOTEL ROOM SHOWDOWN
It certainly wasn't easy. One Night in Miami opens with a montage that shows the highs and lows of the Black experience in America in the...
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PIECES OF A WOMAN: LIFE AFTER TRAUMA
T.S. Eliot once wrote that what we call the beginning is oftentimes the end, while making an end is often a beginning. Pieces of a Woman,...
MANK: TINSELTOWN TEARDOWN
Mank trades in the grandeur and movie-making magic of Old Hollywood in the 1930s for something far more insidious: a look at the smarmy,...
A BROKEN NEW YEAR
Looking out at a discordant world, full of fury, full of wonder, full of enchantment, full of possibility, full of flitting dream, it is...
FIRST COW: A WILDERNESS UNBOUND
Director Kelly Reichardt knows how to shoot nature. Her camera lingers on its many delights in rapturous color: the dew-dripping leaves,...
MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM: LOOKING UP AT THE BLUES
If there's a way to categorize Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, the equal parts audacious and wistful new film streaming on Netflix, it would be...
the highway runs
Maneuvering the roads, the thoroughfares, the swirl of exhaust from motor vehicles attuned and on guard for speed when it suits them to...
CRITICAL GAZE
Coming to you from the real world, coming to you from ground zero, here in the atmosphere of struggle, of missteps, of hope in the midst...
KEY LARGO: A STORM BREWS INSIDE US
Key Largo doesn't take long to find its hard noir core. The classic Bogie-Bacall picture from 1948 stashes the main characters in a...
SOUND OF METAL: SILENCE AND FURY
From the blackness of a darkened stage, the spotlight is on the drummer, bare -chested, hands in air, ready to beat his tom-toms with the...
MANGROVE: A SENSE OF PLACE LAID TO WASTE
Steve McQueen, director of the magnetic new film Mangrove, treats injustice as if it were a personal affront to mankind. His...
THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES: DISILLUSION AND THE RETURNING VET
The war is over in the Pacific. Three servicemen are returning home. They bum a ride together on an Air Force transport plane, sitting in...
THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7: POLITICS AS THEATER
In The Trial of the Chicago 7, the new film from Aaron Sorkin now playing on Netflix, Abbie Hoffman, one of the defendants accused of...
THe INVISIBLE MAN: TRANSPARENT TERROR
Sometimes, when it comes to bad relationships, it is not about the lack of love between two people, or lack of chemistry, fidelity or...
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS: OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES
There is a scene midway through Eliza Hittman's soul-provoking new movie Never Rarely Sometimes Always that is wrenching in its...
DEMOGOGUES AND THE OLD TESTAMENT
For those who believe in peaceable protest and the rights of all people to assemble in a democratic setting, this week’s Torah portion...
CRITICISM: LOVE OR THE LACK OF UNDERSTANDING?
Who among us can take criticism well? Who among us is that thick-skinned, that mature, that we do not mind a little rebuke, a little...
WHAT IS GRACE
Are we not full of grace already when we bask in the earth, in what is around us if only it is a street cobbled and pocked by tire...
ASPHALT ANIMALS
Navigating the roads, the thoroughfares, the swirl of exhaust from motor vehicles tuned and on guard for speed when it suits them to fly...
THE VAST OF NIGHT: LOW BUDGET, HIGH CHILLS
When we discuss supernatural thrillers in our modern age, we typically talk about the special effects, the chills coming from the ability...
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