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Writer-director Aaron Sorkin brings a star-studded cast and his signature brand of fast-talking, hokey idealism to an inflection point in the counterculture movement
A pitch-perfect, punk AF documentary about the formation of U.K.’s Rock Against Racism — culminating in a legendary ’78 show in Victoria Park — doubles as a contemporary call to arms…
Spike Lee’s concert film of the singer’s Broadway show is a perfect complement to ‘Stop Making Sense’ — and pure bliss
A new documentary co-directed by Alex Gibney traces how our current administration’s complete mishandling of a pandemic in the U.S. turned catastrophic
The action star plays a safecracker looking to go straight, until some dodgy FBI agents try to shake him down and take him down. He deserves better than this
Writer, director and star Radha Blank tells a semi-autobiographical tale of a playwright stuck in an artistic rut — and boldly stakes her claim in a normally white, malecentric comic space
The new movie adaptation, from director Joe Mantello and producer Ryan Murphy, is packed with openly gay Hollywood stars reprising their Broadway roles
Adaptation of Nancy Springer’s YA novels featuring Sherlock’s teen sibling would be a crass I.P. grab if it weren’t for its subtext — and its star
Torrid tale of serial murderers, backwoods madness and ol’ time religious immorality in the American heartland can’t make sense of its own twisted storytelling
Thanks to a major marketing mistake, this award-winning French movie has been accused of sexualizing girls. It’s actually a sensitive portrait of growing pains that deserves to be seen
