The best films of 2024 were released during a time of increasing polarization in the film industry. Tentpoles got bigger, more unwieldy, more uneven, more likely to crash and burn. On the other side ...

Quentin Tarantino has selected his top 20 movies of the 21st century, with Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down coming in first place and Lee Unkrich’s Toy Story 3 ranking second. The Oscar-winning director ...

After more than 20 years in the U.S., an Eritrean mother and nurse tried to self-deport to Canada. She found herself in a Texas detention center instead. Rahel Negassi, an Eritrean asylum seeker who ...

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Special thanks to all contributors: Lorelei d’Andriole, Damian Anache, Paul Attard, Yasaman Baghban, Ben Balcom, Roger Beebe, Dan Black, Swagato Chakravorty, Pip ...

From Ellis Island to Lampedusa, from Seoul to Senegal, filmmakers have used cinema to chart the hopes, heartbreak and quiet heroism of those who cross borders in search of something better. By Scott ...

Hair braiding tells a story. Of womanhood. Of age. Of what it means to be Habesha and find your way back to rituals that almost disappeared. For Brehan, a 37-year-old bride-to-be in Dallas with both ...

The greatest cinema from the True North Strong and Free, spanning Denis Villeneuve's early masterpieces, Guy Maddin's oddball majesty and a whole lot of body horror and hockey comedy. By Scott ...

Amnesty International urged the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Tuesday to condemn the forced return of Eritrean refugees to their home country. The statement came amid the 58th session of the ...

It wasn’t that long ago that digging up a solid list of the year’s standout queer films would have taken some reaching. But in 2024, choosing among the abundance of options is the challenge. From ...

In “A Complete Unknown,” the new film directed by James Mangold, a young Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) impulsively slips into a movie theatre with his girlfriend, Sylvie (Elle Fanning), to catch a ...

It was the year of singing witches and feuding siblings, animated anxieties and neurotic robots, super-powered besties and tennis-fueled threesomes. Music biopics ran the gamut from Amy Winehouse to ...