Being One with the Run
Documentary profiles runners in Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race
I once heard that the best way to approach marathon running is to take each mile and dedicate it to someone special in your life. … Continue reading
Film Archive
The Stories We Tell
Madeline’s Madeline takes an immersive, affecting plunge into the life of a confident teenager
At first, Madeline is a cat. Cats sniff things; they curl up in strange places; they pounce; they rub their faces on their people and … Continue reading
Afterbirth of a Nation
A black cop infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan in Spike Lee’s powerful new film BlacKkKlansman
The call-out controversy arising between Boots Riley, director of Sorry to Bother You, and director Spike Lee — whose new film, BlacKkKlansman, Riley accuses of … Continue reading
Masaaki Yuasa's 'The Night is Short, Walk On Girl' is an colorful wonderland
Jump inside the sticky sweet world of Masaaki Yuasa, director of Lu Over The Garden Wall and Devilman Crybaby, as he masterfully crafts a tale … Continue reading
Stuck in Middle School
Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade shows teen angst is forever
For all the things that have changed about being a teen — apps and laptops, likes and subscribes, the endless awareness that everyone else really … Continue reading
WorryFree, and Everywhere in Chains
Sorry to Bother You takes on the crazy confusion of late capitalism
Boots Riley’s debut movie is an outrageous and glorious mess. Its sympathies are intrinsically Marxist, but the aesthetics of Sorry to Bother You are a … Continue reading
Thanks for Cher-ing
Mamma Mia! sequel makes ABBA great again
The credits rolled by, and I looked around me. I was the lone male in the Springfield movie theater. But that’s okay, because this is … Continue reading
This Is Not a Drill
A father and daughter go off the grid in Oregon in Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace
Director Debra Granik’s 2010 coming-of-age drama Winter’s Bone set a new highwater mark for American independent cinema. A work of anxious discovery, ancient entanglements and … Continue reading
Being Kind Takes Work
Mister Rogers in the age of Trump
If you as a child had even a passing familiarity with Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, you don’t need anyone to tell you to hop the trolley … Continue reading
One Day You’ll Be Dead
College kids plot to steal rare books in the bizarre true-crime heist flick American Animals
In 1866, the legendary Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky released a vicious little novel called Crime and Punishment, about a poor college student, Raskolnikov, who brutally … Continue reading