Ken Loach's Palme D'Or Winner I, Daniel Blake is a bracing call-to-action against bureaucratic failures to treat citizens like people. But it falters …
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Social Justice
Explore stories about marginalized groups and the pursuit of a more fair society.
Age in Place: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius
Jesse Thompson explores sound, place, and gentrification in Aquarius and its parallels to the realities of real estate in Sydney, Australia. …
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Ava DuVernay’s 13th is an innovative spin on the talking head doc
Employing key but subtle twists on the convention talking head documentary, Ava DuVernay's 13th explains how slavery in the U.S. was never really …
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Arabian Nights is an intoxicating, maddening mosaic of recession-era Portugal
Brandon Nowalk reviews Arabian Nights, which he describes as the blind men’s elephant: miniseries and short story cycle, documentary and fantasy, …
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The politics of sisterhood in Mustang
Mustang, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s directorial debut, charts five sisters' resistance, as they both grow into and reject a narrow notion of womanhood. But Ergüven …
3000 Nights explores motherhood behind bars
Mais Masri's 3000 Nights was a highlight of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, a film by a female director that flew largely under-the-radar. Check …
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