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Tracing Hollywood’s cultural decline from Anora to Barbie, Thunberg to Gerwig.
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Armond White
The Bad Faith of Conclave
Turning the pope’s election into a trans referendum.
The Karla or Carlos Controversy Confounds Hollywood
Twists in the trans revolution upend film-industry journalism.
Emilia Pérez — an Ode to Transgender Globalism
France’s commercial issue-hustler Jacques Audiard strikes again.
The Religion of a Political Movie
The Seed of the Sacred Fig — an Arabian Nights warning.
David Lynch’s Anti–Political Correctness
The legacy of all-American surrealism.
Eat the Night Confronts the TikTok Crisis
Video games exchange carpe diem realism for escape.
Saturday Night Is SNL’s Propaganda Origin Story
Jason Reitman commemorates TV’s Great Corruption.
Godard for Christmas
The controversial Hail Mary is more devout than controversial.
Mike Leigh’s Transcendent Hard Truths
The cinematic miracle of humanism.
The Transing of Moana
Disney’s latest social lecture panders.
The Era-Defining Madness of Joker: Folie à Deux
Why the ‘Barbenheimer’ and ‘Glicked’ industry can’t make decent movies anymore.
Blitz Bombs the British Empire — Again
Steve McQueen’s racial-identity tale takes revenge on his art patrons.
The Goldman Case Puts a Nation on Trial
Cédric Kahn’s landmark courtroom movie does what American filmmakers can’t.
The Union Pretends a Deep-State Rescue Mission
Mark Wahlberg’s and Halle Berry’s thriller-romance nods to populism.
The Conversation — Wiretapping America’s Soul
Coppola’s 1974 movie brings back social conscience.
Hollywood’s Dilemma: Politics or Art?
Zack Snyder bungles myth and politics in Rebel Moon — Chapter Two: Curse of Forgiveness.
Movie Codes for Communism and Freedom
Bound and Drive-Away Dolls center sexual politics.
Kevin Costner’s News-Adjacent Ambitions
The partisanship and gaslighting behind Horizon.
Kevin Costner’s News-Adjacent Ambitions
The partisanship and gaslighting behind Horizon.
The Fiasco of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Hollywood turns August Wilson into a #BLM Tyler Perry.
Hamilton on the Wrong Side of Cinema
A monument to political egotism self-destructs.
Tommaso Challenges ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Orthodoxy
Willem Dafoe and Abel Ferrara deal with manhood honestly, identity politics be damned.