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Some films embody the Trump era, some confront it, and still others ignore its existence. “Booksmart,” the first feature directed by Olivia Wilde, is in a stranger category: it’s a counterfactual comedy about a world minus Trumpism, in…

In the movie “Give Me Liberty,” a dark comedy that will screen this month, at the Cannes Film Festival, one of the lead roles is played by Lauren (Lolo) Spencer, a thirty-one-year-old marketing manager and disability-rights advocate from…

Lillian Ross, who was a staff writer at The New Yorker for seven decades, called herself a reporter, but she was an artist, and her prime subject was art. In 1950, she profiled Ernest Hemingway, who planted the seeds of creative…

For many years, Libby Gelman-Waxner, an assistant buyer in juniors’ activewear, moonlighted for Premiere magazine and Entertainment Weekly as the world’s most beloved and irresponsible movie critic. Now she’s been coaxed out of…

Jack O'Connell and Laura Dern in Edward Zwick's Trial by Fire.(Photo: Roadside Attractions)In August of 1992, the state of Texas found Cameron Todd Willingham guilty in the triple-murder of his children. According to the state,…

(Photo: Aarón Blanco Tejedor/Unsplash)The worlds of movies, television, and theater are overwhelmingly populated by political liberals. This frustrates some conservatives, who complain that the entertainment we consume is biased or…

The new romantic comedy “Long Shot” has a familiar premise—the relationship between Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron), the Secretary of State, who is making a Presidential bid, and Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen), a scruffy investigative…

HURLBURT FIELD — The smiles say it all, shining through the darkness of a movie theater at Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield. Dozens of airmen, shown in an official photo, eagerly await the start of "Avengers: Endgame," the culmination of…

Hollywood filmmakers have always taken on history, sometimes with insight, sometimes with grotesque inaccuracy, and usually with an unquestioning faith in their own access to the past. To this day, it’s mostly independent filmmakers who…

(Photo: Aleyna Rentz/Unsplash; Ian Hurley/Pacific Standard)This is an exciting opportunity for a freelance editor to contribute to our new Ideas section, and be part of a team that is thinking openly and ambitiously about how criticism…