None of this is to say that the film doesn’t have its charms and curious attractions. Songwriter and musician Dave Stewart ...

It was the culmination of years of eroding journalistic standards and executives bending the knee to stay in Trump’s good ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has, for the moment, indicated a willingness to abandon his threat to take over Greenland through military force – saying that he prefers negotiation to invasion. He is, ...

While not without its flaws, We Shall Not Be Moved (No nos moverán) is a great movie that does a magnificent job of blending comedy with drama. Mexico submitted it for Best International Film at the ...

Despite mass anti-government protests that brought thousands of Iranians into the streets—along with the rising number of ...

We have always liked to think that comedy is secretly noble. Even when the jokes are crude or petty or plain bad, we cling to the idea that somewhere underneath the punchline is a tiny act of ...

Dead Man’s Wire seems the perfect picture for a United States where trust in core institutions is fading and a significant number of people viewed Luigi Mangione as a righteous vigilante. In case you ...

A familiar slogan has echoed through the streets of various Iranian cities in recent days: “Neither Gaza nor Lebanon, I sacrifice my life for Iran.” That phrase has been chanted at protests that have ...

“Life's greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.” That quote by Andre Breton, the author of the Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924, turned a good number of ...

Directed by Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent explores life under the watchful eyes of dictatorship. The film follows Armando Serranado (Wagner Moura), a former professor ...

The predawn U.S. military operation that spirited Nicolás Maduro and his wife out of Venezuela and into U.S. custody marks a watershed in hemispheric politics. In an operation that lasted just over ...

There are objective measures for the quality of a film, but the only way to arrive at a critical rating is to apply subjective judgements to each criterion. For that reason, year-end, best-of lists ...