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August 29, 2025
MagazineBeatrice Loayza
Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest Is a Meta-Reckoning with His Success
Denzel Washington delights as usual in an uneven thriller based on a classic Kurosawa film.
September 11, 2020
Artel Great
Black Cinema Matters
Black films have championed Black lives for over 100 years—while white America studiously ignored them.
June 12, 2020
Jo Livingstone
Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods Takes On the Black Trauma of Vietnam
The director’s latest is a maximalist spectacle that seems torn between comedy and tragedy.
July 12, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
The Best Film About Race in Years
January 24, 2013
Marc Tracy
Kobe Bryant, the "Black Mamba," Has Shed His Skin But Remains a Snake
September 7, 2012
Rick Perlstein
In Obama’s Old Neighborhood, the Excitement is Muted
July 19, 2012
The New Republic Staff
Duplicitous Agents, Hollywood’s Problems, and Paul Krugman’s European Trip: Today’s TNR Reader
August 23, 2010
Matt Zoller Seitz
The Movie Review: ‘If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise’
May 7, 2010
John McWhorter
Please “Treme,” I Beg You--Get Over Yourself
March 5, 2010
John McWhorter
Taking out My Eraser
April 15, 2009
Jason Zengerle
Empty Garden
October 22, 2008
The New Republic Staff
Mccain's Unlikely Muse
June 8, 2008
Isaac Chotiner
Spike Vs. Clint, Continued!
May 3, 2004
Robert Brustein
Reality Theater
July 2, 1990
Jonathan Rieder
Trouble in Store

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