Movies

Martin Scorsese's Damned Men Walking

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a meditation on the notion of culpability carried without the possibility of absolution.
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22 Nov 2019

Joker and Our Crisis of Solidarity

by Sohrab Ahmari

When healthy, reasonable sources of solidarity and communion are allowed to wither and die, unhealthy, unreasonable versions gather strength. Continue Reading »

20 Nov 2019

Don’t See Joker

by Alexi Sargeant

Hollywood needs to learn that evil is not all that interesting. Continue Reading »

23 Oct 2019

Forgiveness at Mother Emanuel

by John Murdock

A new documentary tells a story of forgiveness in the shadow of the South's Confederate past. Continue Reading »

10 Jun 2019

When the Sight & Sound poll—the oldest and most prestigious film ranking—declared in 2012 that Vertigo was the greatest film ever made, Armond White denounced the film’s admirers for their “obsessive interest in pathology and soullessness.” James Wolcott dismissed the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2018

Superheroes Saving Us From Ourselves

by Christopher R. Altieri

The moral of Avengers: Infinity War is that life is good—indeed, that life is a good, one the good guys seek to preserve, and bad guys seek to destroy. Continue Reading »

15 May 2018