American Fiction is a bold and bracing satire of publishing’s race problem
Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure shows the “African-American experience” as far richer than it’s often allowed…
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Why Barbie wasn’t snubbed
Also this week: Paul Giamatti’s struggling writers, and bad behaviour at the theatre.
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The Zone of Interest is a Holocaust film like no other
Jonathan Glazer’s astonishing adaptation of Martin Amis’s novel is the antidote to Schindler’s List.
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Why The Holdovers deserves Oscars
In a competitive awards season, this film may seem a modest proposition: but we should reward a funny, sad story,…
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All of Us Strangers makes the personal universal
This intensely specific film shows a kind of genius for English humdrum understatement about the most wrenching matters.
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Why make another Mean Girls?
The musical update of the popular high-school movie is entertaining, but bewildering.
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Poor Things is Yorgos Lanthimos’s best film yet
In a brilliant comic fable, Emma Stone is a rude, punky and modern Frankenstein’s monster that puts Barbie to shame.
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How Japan’s wartime history haunts its popular culture
In two new blockbusters – Godzilla Minus One and The Boy and the Heron – Japanese filmmakers grapple with atomic…
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