History has not been kind to Richard Nixon. Nor, by and large, has pop culture. Read More
On Richard Linklater's Bernie and depictions of the south. Read More
The first time I realized I was transgender, I was doing the dishes. Read More
In the early 1990s, Al Pacino began a project that would span years and continents; a multi-level documentary chronicling his attempt to understand and convey how he felt about Shakespeare’s Richard III. Read More
Lauren Wilford goes long with director Guillermo del Toro on art, life, death, morality and movies. Read More
Streep’s take on writer Susan Orlean is both impossibly plausible and shamelessly fabricated. It is the film’s thesis made flesh. Read More
In a way Stories We Tell is the version of a story Sarah Polley was forced to tell at gunpoint. Read More
Amadeus treads a middle ground between the divine and the damned. Read More
The Program, then, came at the right time to face that “ugly truth” head on: Armstrong had confessed and had been vilified by the same press that once loved him. Read More
Herein lies the chief moral perplexity of David Fincher’s Zodiac: as a society, we desire justice, but when confronted with ambiguity, we’re tempted to disregard the law in order to achieve it. Read More
Capote, the 2005 biopic that imagines Truman Capote while he was writing In Cold Blood, expertly navigates the murkiness of fact and fiction in the author’s life and work. Read More