Richard Brody

J. Hoberman’s teeming history of New York’s avant-garde scene is a fascinating trove of research and a thrilling clamor of voices.

The actress, screenwriter, and novelist’s reviews and essays from 1918-19 display a comprehensive grasp of movie art and a visionary sense of its future.

This 1994 documentary brings the passions and agonies of Mississippi’s voter-registration drive into the present tense.

James Blue’s film investigated the destruction of a Black neighborhood in Houston, but it is also a powerful self-interrogation.

In 1964, the John Birch Society was the most active far-right group in the United States—unless you count the Republican Party.