Gerald Peary
A Reckoning in Boston demonstrates that fifty years after the bussing-era failures to improve the lives of Black people, there is, in James Rutenbeck’s telling words, “No justice, no truth, no reconciliation.”
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RIP Morris Dickstein, among the last of the generation of the New York School of Jewish intellectuals, scholar/critics of massive knowledge and intellect who came from humble backgrounds.
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In its celebration of current-day Black culture, and of the vitality of Black youth, The Inheritance is an optimistic work.
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I have only one criticism of André Gregory’s fabulously entertaining book: I wish it was twice as long, or even three times its 208 pages.
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The book’s conceit is that D.A. Miller watches films he’s seen earlier in life with enhanced perception because of the possibilities offered him through the DVD lens.
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As we wait for our vaccine shots, here’s some superior films that will make standing by more pleasurable.
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Politics is not the filmmaker’s interest in this lovely, affecting documentation of non-bureaucratic, everyday life in Havana.
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Celebrate impeachment in your home with this critic’s fourteenth list of movies guaranteed to entertain.
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Some great old films to watch while you count the days for your anti-COVID injection!
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Film Commentary: What If a Man Insinuates That a Woman Is NOT Attractive? And in Print?
Variety is wrong and cowardly to give in to Cary Mulligan’s misguided, damaging accusations.
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