Nomadland: On the Road Again
Her name is Chloé Zhao, and she makes Westerns. It may seem odd that this 38-year-old native of Beijing found herself at home in...
Judas: I Am a Revolutionary
Back in 1992, Spike Lee’s flawed and magnificent Malcolm X and the galvanizing performance at its center raised the Black Muslim leader from the...
Maud and Savior
What turns people into monsters? What convinces them that murder is the right thing to do? More than racial animus, more than political fanaticism,...
Earwig: The Witch’s Daughter
The headline about Earwig and the Witch is that this is the first computer-drawn animated film made by the Japanese outfit Studio Ghibli. While...
Supernova: We Are All Made of Stars
In my travels, I’ve come across numerous movies that were dull, bad, or ordinary yet had a single moment or scene that achieved greatness....
One Night in Miami: To Be Young, Gifted, and Black
Fresh from winning a well-deserved Oscar for her performance in If Beale Street Could Talk, Regina King now she makes her debut as a...
The Top 10 Movies of 2020 (Part 1)
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: the only people who want to make 2020 longer. This past...
Promising Young Woman: To Catch a Predator
Someone’s coming for you, all you rapists, sexual predators, and even you friends and colleagues who enable them. She doesn’t look like much, but...
Soul: I Am Not Joe’s Body
Much is rightly being made about Soul being the first Pixar movie with a Black man as the main character. I don’t want to...
WW84: Christmas Wishes
For the sequel to Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins finds a hook that she didn’t have for the previous film. The director makes Wonder Woman...
