An important part of every balanced cinematic diet is the political movie. Like any other art form, we need films that question authority, challenge our status quo and reexamine the structures any ...

The concluding chapter raises the stakes and leans hard into another scorchingly hot political topic: immigration.

Question: As life more eerily resembles art in Washington, what are the best American political movies? Answer: America has a long and storied history of engaging politics through film, and some of ...

Several of the films on my best-of-the-year list, including “Last Air in Moscow,” are fundamentally timeless expressions and ...

William Smith is a freelance writer currently living in the Midwest with his wife and daughter, where he spends too much time watching movies and then writing about them. He doesn't read your hurtful ...

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

When Nina Simone said "an artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times,” she wasn’t referring to only the moments in history that feel like sunshine and roses. The iconic singer and ...

Filmmakers cite rising attacks on culture, shrinking space for political documentaries, and the struggle to secure U.S. distribution for films like 'The 6 Billion Dollar Man' and 'The Voice of Hind ...

The new Spike Lee joint, an inventive Brazilian political thriller and a Scandinavian family drama spiked with humor were among other standouts from the world's pre-eminent film festival. By David ...

For anyone who loves “Wicked,” it’s easy to get swept up in the magic, the music and the sisterhood between the central pair of star-crossed friends at the heart of the story. But it was also hard to ...