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Yusef Salaam on life after exoneration, the need for criminal justice reform and Donald Trump's "bounty placed on our heads."

Boots Riley’s new film shows how black liberation and labor politics are enmeshed. And it’s funny.

Awards show activism, then and now.

The film, in no uncertain terms, considers the possibility and necessity of revolution for Black people across the world.

Film is dead. Long live these films.

The problem with the media’s individualistic response to collective tragedy.

The new documentary Spettacolo captures a Tuscan village’s annual play.

Filmmaker David Lowery's latest is slow, but contains a few genuine spiritual ideas.

The director of Snowpiercer is back with a kiddie film that meets vegetarian propaganda, with surprising success.

The Iranian filmmaker's masterful, Oscar-nominated The Salesman shows the futility of progressives trying to tolerantly endure repressive regimes.

From the Iranian mystery Fireworks Wednesday to the German black comedy Toni Erdmann, this year's stand-out films were far off the beaten path.

Filmmaker Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann takes a wise and whimsical look at the struggles women face in the corporate world.

In the age of Trump, we need all the rogues we can get.

"Shin Godzilla" sheds the monster's pacifist origins and shows a Japan eager to get out from under Washington's thumb.

The BBC miniseries The Night Manager and new film Our Kind of Traitor fumble with morality and power.

When a French family tries to hold on to the past, it doesn't end well.

Most Austen adaptations are little more than 'buttoned-up, tea-drinking porn.' But Whit Stillman's new film 'Love & Friendship' foregrounds Austen's sharp observations on social mobility.

In a new doc, Monty Python's Jones illustrates capitalism's tendency toward disaster

Filmed in Portugal in 2013 and 2014, Miguel Gomes' new documentary Arabian Nights tries to make sense of life under IMF rules.

Do the genitalia in Gaspar Noé’s Love herald the rise or the fall of 3D cinema?

Patrick McGilligan's unauthorized biography of the film legend, updated through 2015, suffers from bastard fatigue: There are just too many examples of Eastwood's perfidy.

For all its wit and unabashed vulgarity, Amy Schumer's film follows a tired formula

Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing focused on the perpetrators of genocide; in the sequel, the stage is shared by traumatized survivors.

Though entirely in Ukrainian Sign, without subtitles, Slaboshpytskiy's remarkable film will speak to a hearing audience.

A new documentary follows the weird subculture of Vietnam War reenactors—some of whom were actually there.

An existentialist Swedish movie occupies a completely original universe.

Will people of color ever make it to the end of the world?

Mary Dore's documentary, 'She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,' reminds us of '70s feminism's daring and creativity

Through a seaside mystery, About Elly explores the irrational rules placed on women in Iran.

One explanation is hidden in plain sight: the way the cult mirrors the star-obsessed, profit-driven culture of Hollywood.

Viggo Mortensen and Lisandro Alonso tour Argentina's dark, imperialist past in a new film.

Clint Eastwood treats Iraq like Iwo Jima. Will Americans really go for this horseshit?

This isn't the first case of cyberterrorism this year, but it's by far the most decried.

By posing the choice between a coworker's job and 1,000 Euros, Two Days, One Night explores the state of worker solidarity.

Not your kid sister's vampire flick.

A new film, Kill the Messenger, shows how the CIA, the Washington Post and the LA Times conspired to discredit a journalist, and destroyed a life.

According to a new documentary, we're all responsible for the BP disaster.

Finally, more of Chris Marker's work is becoming available in the U.S. Here's where to start.

Heading the SS didn't excuse Heinrich Himmler from his fatherly duties.

The sci-fi flick doesn't fall into the trap of romanticizing the struggle.

The latest adaptation of the classic flick all but ignores the original monster's anti-nuclear message.

The new film doesn't capture the diversity of the farmworkers' movement.

The two-part film feels like the work of teenage boy.

How do you show the past when the Khmer Rouge torched all traces?

Jehane Noujaim, director of Oscar-nominated documentary The Square, on the challenges of shooting a revolution-in-progress.

Scorsese's latest is a romp through vicarious amorality.

A new documentary on narcocorrido, the gangsta rap that glorifies the Mexican drug trade.

Counter-culture badassery is back in Kill Your Darlings.

Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin is a grotesque portrayal of modern-day China's struggle with corruption.

Dante gets an update in Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's provocative new films.

Before going to prison, three giddy Nixon staffers took reels of White House footage.

The Internship: a study in the psychology of mass digital conformity.

Mass murderers reenact their crimes for fun in Joshua Oppenheimer's new documentary, The Act of Killing.

The Attack, a tasteful thriller about a Palestinian suicide bombing, will please both sides of the divide. And that's its problem.

Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby gets the tackiness right, but the flappers wrong.

We've seen the future of film, and it's incomprehensible.

Debunking the American Horror Story of gay and lesbian aging.