Jonathan Glazer deliberately avoids the most familiar horrors of the Holocaust to show a further layer of inhumanity.

Here is The New Republic’s guide to the contenders for the 96th Academy Awards in 2024

Yorgos Lanthimos’s film, starring Emma Stone, is his least brutal, least original work to date.

Bradley Cooper’s biopic never really captures Leonard Bernstein’s passion for music.

It’s a portrayal so undignified that I almost expected ABBA’s “Waterloo” to play over the credits.

Kristoffer Borgli’s surreal comedy probes the benefits and horrors of instant fame.

“The Holdovers” is a brilliant study of an all-boys school and the troubled men it produces.

Sofia Coppola’s Elvis is an insecure jock, a rudderless pretty boy with more charisma than talent.

Scorsese’s film is a benchmark in how popular culture understands the American West and the Indigenous experience.

The HBO docuseries follows recruits as they face hazing from their bosses, mistrust in the community, and a legacy of dispossession.

The biopic starring Helen Mirren shies away from the moral implications of Golda Meir’s decisions.

The climate crisis arrives suddenly and overwhelmingly in Christian Petzold’s seaside drama.

The increasingly hopeless presidential candidate is now clinging to a weird right-wing meme in the hopes of winning over the misogynistic-sociopath vote.

David Zaslav, whose Chris Licht hire butchered CNN, is vandalizing TCM, a beloved cultural institution.

Tina Satter’s film “Reality” on HBO captures the cruelty of the surveillance state.

Paul Schrader’s portrait of an ex–white supremacist gang member is an unlikely feat of optimism.

The odds are stacked against Michelle Williams in the new film “Showing Up.”

Films from Charlotte Wells and Lukas Dhont aim for intimate, almost imperceptible moments of connection rather than a grand affirmation.

In a new film about the Harvey Weinstein exposé, the protagonists argue that the problem is the system, not one man in particular. The movie itself ignores the lesson.

In Amazon’s take on The Lord of the Rings, the hero is a fanatic, ceaselessly seeking out potential threats.