Lubitsch
Anti-fascist cinema: To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Veering between farce and contemporary drama, with hints of Shakespeare, this anti-Nazi film captures the derision with which Americans viewed Hitler
Mark Pritchard
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Review: Materialists (2025)
Writer-director Celine Song brings another thoughtful, insightful romantic dramedy
queer
Review: My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Gus Van Zant's breakout feature was a sojourn with queer hustlers with very different destinies
billionaires
Review: Mountainhead (2025)
The disasters happen offscreen in this simplistic satire of tech billionaires
blues
Review: Sinners (2025)
Mixing a mytho-historical setting with cultural myths and all-too-real illustrations of Jim Crow racism and resistance, plus it's almost a musical
singing
Anti-fascist cinema: Casablanca (1942)
Obvious? Sure. This movie about moving from cynicism to commitment is justifiably legendary
sabotage
Anti-fascist cinema: Aimée & Jaguar (1999)
Erotic melodrama both enlivens and distracts from the depiction of women in the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany during WWII
environmental poison
Anti-fascist cinema: Magic Farm (2025)
Magic Farm (2025) Written and directed by Amalia Ulman People who bemoan the lack of imagination in movies nowadays are correct when it comes to the repetitive output of Hollywood. Revenge action thrillers rooted in male insecurity, animated musical film offerings to weary mothers and their elementary school-aged children, and
San Diego
Review: On Swift Horses (2024)
A gorgeous first feature explores the lives of two brothers and the against-the-grain wife of one of them
Godard
Review: The Dreamers (2003)
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movies of 2006
Review: Summer Palace (2006)
Restless passion set against the backdrop of the Tiananmen Square protests
bombing
Review: Night Moves (1975) and Night Moves (2013)
A classic mid-70s neo-noir and a tense 21st century eco-thriller