Hannah Amaris Roh explores how the film “Minari” provides a generative and moving departure from the typical Asian American immigrant film....

Soham Gadre reviews the first scholarly monograph on filmmaker Amit Dutta, written by Srikanth Srinivasan....

Laura Maw considers the role of daughterhood in contemporary horror cinema, focusing in particular on the 2020 film “Relic.”...

James Penner analyzes the life and times of Joanna Harcourt-Smith and Errol Morris’s recent film about her, “My Psychedelic Love Story.”...

Eileen G’Sell compares two documentaries about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Helen Keller, both of whom had radical politics that have been whitewashed....

A well-researched and very useful study of the Soviet Union’s cultural diplomacy....

Michael M. Weinstein looks at Sharon Liese’s new HBO documentary, “Transhood,” which explores the lives of children living beyond the gender binary....

A film about the marquee trial of the 1960s counterculture fails to explain its enduring relevance....

A revealing biography of an iconic Hollywood star....

A Wes Anderson devotee reminds the author of his young self and the sorts of sensibilities (science- and art-related) for which others have to pay....

Sara Black McCulloch considers the nature of the concert film — its scope, its liveness, and its political commitments....

Martin Scorsese’s 2019 film “The Irishman” matches the austere mood of Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 masterpiece “Army of Shadows.”...

The new film “Enola Holmes” illustrates a cultural shift in how girlhood is conceptualized and understood....

Ben Wheatley’s new film version of Daphne du Maurier’s classic novel is grating....

Tania Modleski watches new Netflix's adaptation of Rebecca and tracks the puzzling misreadings and misleadings of its source material....

Lee Vinsel on Jean Shepherd and the darker message in "A Christmas Story."...

LARB presents the December installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus....