The Two Lives of Norma McCorvey
The documentary “AKA Jane Roe” is a lesson in how the law dehumanizes those it claims to protect.
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The Wolf House Is a Stop-Motion Nightmare
Two artists use painstaking techniques to take on a dark episode in Chilean history.
The End of The Trip
The fourth and final installment of the culinary travelogue takes the bromance to new heights.
Al Capone, All-American Boogeyman
A new biopic reveals what the antihero of Prohibition can teach us today.
Michelle Obama Won’t Save Us
“Becoming,” a new documentary, obliquely reveals the ways in which this country did the former First Lady wrong.
The Important Debate Planet of the Humans Misses
Instead of lambasting yesteryear’s renewable energy, the movie could have taken up current, more relevant questions.
Reagan, Gay Porn, and Family Secrets Star in Circus of Books
An intimate documentary about Los Angeles’s queer history
Planned Parenthood Is the Real Star of Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Eliza Hittman’s new movie is a hyper-realistic abortion story.
Woody Allen’s Memoir Is Shrouded in Secrecy. Why?
An investigation into the most toxic book of a toxic season.
Welcome to the Zoom Party
All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom.
The Pandemic Movie of Our Time Isn’t Contagion. It’s Jaws.
The 1975 Spielberg flick captures the dread of facing an invisible enemy—and the incompetence of the politicians in charge.
Why You Should Watch Movies About Pandemics, During Pandemics
Sometimes fiction is stranger—and more revealing—than truth.
Hillary Clinton’s Neverending Story
Can Hulu’s new documentary ever set the record straight?
In Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Love is a Work of Art
How Céline Sciamma’s new film envisions a relationship between equals
The Enduring Vision of Chinatown
A new history of the classic noir movie dissects L.A.’s creation myths.
The Lodge Is a House of Horrors With Nothing Inside
Scary movies can thrill us. Do they also have to mean something?
The Assistant Looks at the Woman Behind a Bad Man
This unsettling movie about a Harvey Weinstein–like figure confronts the systems that support sexual misconduct.
Women Can’t Have It All, Even at the Movies
"Like a Boss" inadvertently lays bare some unfunny truths about hashtag-empowerment.
Citizen K Captures the Rise and Fall of an Oligarch
Alex Gibney’s new documentary about Mikhail Khodorkovsky presents a complex picture of a dissident.
Clemency Grapples With the Banal Evil of the Death Penalty
Alfre Woodard's astonishing performance is one of many surprises in director Chinonye Chukwu's second film.
