For a long time, if justice had a name, it had to be Lt. Columbo. Read More
I want to live in the artificial worlds Richard Curtis creates, with their aesthetic rules and regulations, if only to live in a world where problems are surmountable, and everyone is funny. Read More
While Revenge cuts a swath through the sandbox of some of the tropes of its genre, Coralie Fargeat's film is also powerfully, screamingly feminist. Read More
Bing Liu's Minding the Gap eschews traditional narrative arcs, touring wreckage of the past—a past that is still driving and informing the present—and redefining cinematic language as a means to an uncertain end. Read More
In allowing room for all the angles that motivate Amy, Enlightened asks us to consider the things that drive us, and ask ourselves: Do they make our fight any less valid if our hearts are in the right place? Read More
In describing Cooper Raiff’s emergence onto the independent film scene, it’s easy to lean on what sounds like a novelty hook: at just 23 years old, he’s written, directed, starred in, and co-edited a college-set romcom that went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at South by Southwest. Read More
Alien may have blazed the trail for unlikely female action heroes, but it’s Aliens that made Ripley iconic to girls like me. Read More
Nausicaä is a hero, but it’s not enough to want her to lead us, or to wait for her to save us. We must become her. Read More
The Conformist demonstrates how the violence of fascism often grows not from evil, but from nothingness. Read More
We have a moral obligation to be merciful, not just because it’s the humane thing to do—though it almost always is, even in the face of atrocity—but because of the minority report. Read More
Watching Boys State now is a strange experience—I try to spot myself in the movie and am mostly unable to. Read More
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds operates on two levels for its entirety; it both imagines a different story and examines the ones we’ve already told. Read More