Steven Spielberg

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?

"Every film about war ends up being pro-war," Francois Truffaut once said.

If there’s anything the 2010s taught us, it’s that there is no getting these stories right, no honoring with grace the dead and ghosts.

From the meh (A Beautiful Mind) to the stunningly beautiful (Moonlight), and the classic (All About Eve) to the god-awful (Birdman).

A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.

The Hollywood overhauls that got us from Bogart to Batman.

American portraiture with its visual allure and pictorial storytelling made gun ownership desirable.

In hindsight: A day created to commemorate peace has been transformed into one that perpetuates war.