Critics Wave the Red Flag for a Socialist Parable
What the Italian film Martin Eden tells us about hard-left fantasies.
Film
Nomadland Transforms America into Alienation Nation
Chloé Zhao rips off the class struggle.
The Unheeded Threat of The Social Network
The Mark Zuckerberg hagiography predicted Big Tech fascism.
Farewell to a Non-Visionary Filmmaker
Michael Apted had the discipline not to impose liberal ideology on his films.
Cinema’s Annus Mirabilis
In 1971, Hollywood gave us a string of not only great films but enduringly fascinating ones.
A Movie and Its Maker
On a podcast with Bryan Fogel, who has made ‘The Dissident,’ about Jamal Khashoggi and his murder.
The 16th Annual Better-Than List
2020’s films went from real cinema to increasingly politicized dreck.
Soul’s New Age Spirituality
If that’s how we all go out, then it’s hard to blame our hero for making a beeline back to his mortal body.
The Fiasco of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Hollywood turns August Wilson into a #BLM Tyler Perry.
Reflections of a Market Evangelist
Bob Chitester, the executive producer of Free to Choose, looks back.