Amorality tale: ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
Told from an unexpected perspective, Shaka King’s film is one of the best recent-historical dramas
Drawn to the drift: Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’
The award-winning film about America’s itinerants steers away from the darker stories of the working poor
Once upon a time in the north: ‘High Ground’
Stephen Maxwell Johnson’s foray into Australia’s violent colonial history is a visually spectacular, if overfamiliar, revisionist Western
David Fincher’s biopic of Orson Welles’s collaborating writer favours technique over heart
The long goodbye: ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead’
Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson deals with her father’s decline into dementia by “killing” him through various means
American democracy is documented in all its gangly, acne-mottled glory
America’s imperfect angels: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’
Post Black Lives Matter, the hit musical already feels like a souvenir from a vanished pre-Trump America
The death of cool: Michel Piccoli, 1925–2020
Re-watching the films of the most successful screen actor of the 20th century
Melbourne-born, New York–based filmmaker Kitty Green’s powerfully underplayed portrait of Hollywood’s abusive culture
Consolations in isolation: ‘The Platform’ and ‘Free in Deed’
What is the future of cinema without cinemas?