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
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Review: Materialists (2025)
Writer-director Celine Song brings another thoughtful, insightful romantic dramedy
Review: My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Gus Van Zant's breakout feature was a sojourn with queer hustlers with very different destinies
Review: Mountainhead (2025)
The disasters happen offscreen in this simplistic satire of tech billionaires
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
Anti-fascist cinema: Casablanca (1942)
Obvious? Sure. This movie about moving from cynicism to commitment is justifiably legendary
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
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
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
Review: The Dreamers (2003)
Y tu mamá tambien
Review: Summer Palace (2006)
Restless passion set against the backdrop of the Tiananmen Square protests
Review: Night Moves (1975) and Night Moves (2013)
A classic mid-70s neo-noir and a tense 21st century eco-thriller
movies of 2024
Review: Sacramento (2024)
Men are not OK
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Anti-fascist cinema: Freaky Tales (2024)
Oakland once again provides the setting for a surreal, anarchic vision
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Review: Secret Mall Apartment (2025)
Is it art, or just a treehouse?
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Review: Novocaine (2025)
Somewhere on the scale from gratuitous violence to cartoon violence to slapstick
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Anti-fascist cinema: Satire's brief triumph
On "The Producers" (1967) and "Cabaret" (1972): Come for the songs, stay for the laughs, leave with the shivers
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Anti-fascist cinema: Nr. 24 (2024)
"Nonviolence is lovely, but it doesn't work when your country has been taken by people who despise humanity."
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Review: The Teachers' Lounge (2023) and September 5 (2024)
Two unusual thrillers featuring a stunning German actor, Leonie Benesch
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Anti-fascist film: The Train (1964)
Sabotage and subterfuge are the tools of the French Resistance in this exciting WWII movie
music industry
Review: Vengeance (2022)
What starts as a fish-out-of-water comedy gets deeper until 'Everything means everything'
movies of 2006
Anti-fascist cinema: 'The Lives of Others' and 'The Pianist'
Two films that revolve around the notion that classical music can penetrate the hardened heart
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Anti-fascist cinema: Ida (2013)
First in a series on films with anti-fascist and anti-totalitarian stories and themes
Hollywood
Review: Violet (2021)
That interior critic that tells you you're not good enough has a starring role in this feminist drama