Rogue One: A Star Wars Story movie review: the high price of hope
There’s genuine fun here, but the humor is cynical, the heroics are tinged with regret, and it’s all delivered with a cold smack of — yes — political relevance.
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Miss Sloane movie review: what a piece of work is she
A hugely gripping thriller about politics and money that offers a grim object lesson: Are progressives and liberals gonna have to start fighting dirty?
Chi-Raq movie review: sex as a weapon of peace
Furious, funny, and deadly serious, this is an audacious, searing satire that swells into a raw, electrifying fantasy about how we might put aside savagery.
A United Kingdom movie review: a love that changed the world
Insistent chemistry between David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike fuels a true story of passionate romance with an urgent message about love as radical and political.
The Uncondemned documentary review: the horrors of Rwanda, on trial
Meet the dedicated young lawyers and activists who prosecuted and convicted the first person ever to go to prison for genocide and wartime rape.
Before the Flood documentary review: DiCaprio takes celebrity climate-change advocacy to a new level (LFF 2016)
Leonardo DiCaprio’s abashed personal journey to learn about global warming, overcome his pessimism, and find hope that there’s still time to make a difference.
Michael Moore in TrumpLand movie review: hope and humanity in a dark hour
The filmmaker presents a standup-comedy case for Hillary Clinton for president, not as a fan of Clinton but as a patriot worried about the state of America.
You’ve Been Trumped and You’ve Been Trumped, Too documentaries review: Donald Trump is no friend to “the little people”
A British filmmaker documents the arrogance and disdain with which Donald Trump wields the power of his money… a warning for Americans come Election Day.
#LFF2016: A Date for Mad Mary, Chasing Asylum, The Dreamed Ones
Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.
Starving the Beast documentary review: the deliberate dumbing down of the American university
Lays out with calm, terrifying clarity how US public universities are being turned into profit-making ventures at the expense of students and education.
