“When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau In the opening shots of George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead, we see three former members of a brass ba...

George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead is about breakdowns in civility—the manners, relationships, and logic that buttress our culture. Many of the film’s characters return to regressed versions of themse...

Palace intrigue and ornate martial arts duels are just the surface of Shadow, Zhang Yimou’s stunning 2018 period epic of doppelgängers, zither duets, double-crosses, and monochrome colors splattered w...

A psychological thriller that explores the byproducts of obsessive fandom, director Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue, his feature-length anime debut, features a synthesis of the internal and external, the p...

At 91, Clint Eastwood’s work remains steady. He still makes a feature every year or two, some better than others, and he still works in that leisurely yet elegant style that has marked much of his twe...

CODA checks a lot of boxes. Being about the hearing child of deaf adults, the movie shines a light on a group of people often underrepresented in cinema. The script, written and directed by Sian Heder...

Children of Men’s opening scene skillfully establishes its high-concept world and how director Alfonso Cuarón will portray it. The year is 2027, and human beings have lost the ability to produce offsp...

In a recent United Nations report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, scientists from nearly 200 countries agreed that climate change might be irreversible without drastic and immediat...

“Some films you watch, others you feel.” That’s the tagline of Ordinary People, Robert Redford’s unassuming, superbly acted drama about family members who struggle to communicate with each other. Base...