Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy is a startling experience in how incomprehension, grief, and love can reshape the world. Read More
Losing Ground is an heirloom for Black women, proof that we’ve always craved three-dimensional characters and sophisticated storytelling to relate to. Read More
I so badly want what Ursula Le Guin once called for—stories that allow for the discernment of other ways of being, and which imagine grounds for hope. Read More
This is the real gamble at the heart of Altman's California Split: the risk you take when you put your care and trust into another person. Read More
I don’t know if, as a young actor from Boston, Matt Damon struggled with his identity. But I know the roles he took helped me find mine. Read More
Championed by the likes of contemporaries Luis Buñuel and Jerry Garcia, and later fully restored with the help of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, The Saragossa Manuscript has a hallowed space in Polish film history. Read More
It’s only through confronting the reality of death that the four girls at the heart of this story are able to move forward from childhood to adulthood. Read More
Ad Astra is a film deeply attuned to a heritage among the stars. Read More
Where in previous summers Paul Simon’s Concert in the Park was a gleeful way to keep post-concert blues at bay between shows, now it’s a constant battle to try not to cry while listening to it. Read More
Repo Man is like a piece of bubblegum with a shard of glass in it, the sort of deranged prank that draws blood. Read More
Leave No Trace never lets us forget that we all depend on something outside of ourselves. Read More
How Ganja & Hess (1973) and Soleil O (1967) reflect complexities of Black american and African immigrant experiences. Read More