The U.S. Department of Justice is currently in the midst of examining the hundreds of antitrust consent decrees in effect…
Set in Sacramento in 2002-2003, Greta Gerwig’s female coming-of-age story Lady Bird provides two main points of perspective on the otherwise…
It’s best to think of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as a sort of cinematic parable about forgiveness — both of others…
Before we move on to the Earnest and Important, a word about Father Figures. I didn’t expect it, but this…
Ah, Christmas, when America gets to unwrap its beloved, politically incorrect present. When more and more things qualify as guilty…
Remember video stores? They tended to be hole-in-the-wall shops stacked floor to ceiling with VHS cassettes of every movie you…
Films about race and racism can be important. They’re also difficult to make. Witness Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation,…
Frances McDormand is a force. It’s something in the actress’s voice, her eyes, her sense of humor and her quiet…
Steve Carell has often said the way to deal with hardship is through humor. The man we know from The…
