'Space Force' tries to do justice to the complex connections guiding everyday life in the policy pit.…
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Alt-history is powerful when it doesn’t simply represent a macabre mirror to current circumstance, but rather, when it indulges in the rough and rotten underbelly of its own utopian vision.…
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Where Joker highlights how "the people's" interests are essentially opposed to those of "the elite," Parasite insists on the hopeless entanglement between "us and them."…
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If Joker is meant to represent the corrupting power of self-immolation, of a nihilistic obsession for spectacle, of forging a toxic personal myth in a world where nothing matters, then there's a remarkable absence of emptiness.…
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Unlike the redemptory finale of Endgame, Legion offers no way out. What it does, however, is to suggest that the only hope we have is to firmly believe that change — or at least the possibility of change — exists.…
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David Lynch's detachment is what makes his movies so relatable in Europe. But is this a good thing?…
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With "The Congress", Ari Folman transformed a 1970s sci-fi classic into commentary on modern Hollywood. How did he do it?…
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In times of uncertainty, it's normal to seek models in cinema. In this sense, Roma (A. Cuarón) and The Favourite (A. Lanthimos) have the great merit of posing the right question: what impact can citizens have on political life?…
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