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“How I Became This Woman with Razor Blades Between Her Teeth”: Making the Sonia Sanchez Story
When we talk about the Civil Rights Movement, we often don't talk about the women who fought for blackness, beauty, and power — women like Sonia Sanchez.
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers
Whose Criticism? On A. O. Scott’s “Better Living Through Criticism”
"What has to happen in a person's life for them to become a critic, anyway?"
#PlantSomeShit
When gardening is gangsta, and communities change.
The American Action Auteur
"Thief" offers Frank a binary choice: be a miserable working stiff, or be profoundly alone, on ice, dead to the world.
On “Sisters”
"Sisters" celebrates a friendly kind of sisterhood that is all girl power and no grief.
The “New” Nostalgia of Montreal’s 44th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
The "New" Nostalgia of Montreal's 44th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma.
Fifty Shades of Yellow: DeMille’s Orientalism
The Cheat is a different kind of film from Cecil B. DeMille.
The Evolution of the Last Dinosaur
Relatives and relationships, born or adopted, provide the fundamental social thematics of "The Good Dinosaur."
Stakes Is High: On Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq”
Chicago, to Lee, is a city of visions, visions susceptible to the restorative, conciliatory power of art, as well as to art's destructive influences.
The Evanescent Moment: A Conversation with Girish Shambu about “The New Cinephilia”
A conversation with Girish Shambu about "The New Cinephilia."
Making Things Right: “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens”
Criticisms — or defenses — of Star Wars's narrative retreading are misguided.
Flung Out of Space: “Carol,” Genre, and Gender
"Carol" is unique among Haynes’s films in that it invites us to witness an intimacy that others have failed to notice.
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