Charles Manson and #MeToo
New films from Quentin Tarantino and Mary Harron reflect on the Manson killings—and show starkly different sides of their industry
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Unplanned Is a More Terrifying Movie Than You Think
The anti-abortion film is manipulative and cartoonish, but it’s working
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How to Make a Movie in the North
The Grizzlies is about a lacrosse team that transformed one Nunavut community. But it’s also about Inuit leading the way
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Why the Wrong Movies Win Oscars
Audiences are drawn to feel-good films like Green Book because they’re “based on a true story.” But movies that misrepresent and simplify history distort our understanding of the past
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Movie Night in Tehran
What it’s like to love films in a country where they’re banned
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The Cosmic Tangents of Jean-Luc Godard
At eighty-seven, the legendary director explains why he’s still making movies
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The Unwatchable Whiteness of Holiday Movies
Hallmark’s brand of wholesomeness reinforces racist stereotypes of who deserves happy endings
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Movie Biopics Are Fake News for the Soul
Battle of the Sexes bends the facts to give us a message of hope—but that’s exactly what we need right now
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In Horror Movies, Mothers Are the Ultimate Monsters
The genre loves to see women fail. But Canadian film Latched offers a compelling alternative
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What I Learned From Asking Celebrities to Photograph Me at TIFF
For fifteen years, I’ve asked everyone from Isabella Rossellini to Salman Rushdie to flip the lens. The result is a visual archive of my life—and a meditation on the changing nature of stardom
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