film reviews
‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ review: An ahistorical film that rings hollow
January 18, 2023International film awards are by no means a good film guide. This applies to The Banshees of Inisherin as much as to the rest of them.
Read more‘RRR’ review: A forceful saga highlighting two epic Indian revolutionaries
December 21, 2022The film RRR brings the tale of two heroes—real-life Indian revolutionaries to the big screen and connects their struggle to the raw history of British colonialism.
Read moreDocumentarian Julia Reichert, maker of ‘American Factory’ and ‘Seeing Red,’ dies at 76
December 16, 2022She was a pioneer in women's, labor, and radical history documentary filmmaking.
Read more‘Run Sweetheart Run’ review: A therapeutic #MeToo must-see horror film
December 1, 2022This movie bottles up the frustration over the sputtering #MeToo movement and anger at a system embedded with sexism and hurls it at the screen in all its (literal) bloody glory.
Read moreMassacre at Tantura: The lies upon which the State of Israel was founded
November 22, 2022Israelis called it a 'war of independence.' Arabs experienced it as Al Nakba - The Catastrophe.
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