Armond White

Gypsy’s famous stage mother, played by shrieking Audra McDonald, is racialized in Broadway’s latest instance of gaslighting.

Behind the artsy façade, a community of media radicals.

The Phoenician Scheme reminds us what matters.

Borrowed politics defeat a former rock-music hero.

Mati Diop plies her guilt trade.

Henry Johnson competes with the American ideal.

The sanctimonious proto-Communist bait of Good Night, and Good Luck.

The President’s Wife shows how to defend a first lady.

Jared Hess’s gamer movie dreams of capitalist innovation.

Mike White sensationalizes Seven American Sins.

The acting icon flaunts his own sickness in The Alto Knights.

Bruce LaBruce outstrips his contemporary political-film allies.

Fascism fascination for gamers.

Tracing Hollywood’s cultural decline from Anora to Barbie, Thunberg to Gerwig.

Turning the pope’s election into a trans referendum.

Twists in the trans revolution upend film-industry journalism.

France’s commercial issue-hustler Jacques Audiard strikes again.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig — an Arabian Nights warning.

The legacy of all-American surrealism.

Video games exchange carpe diem realism for escape.

Jason Reitman commemorates TV’s Great Corruption.

The controversial Hail Mary is more devout than controversial.

The cinematic miracle of humanism.

Disney’s latest social lecture panders.

Why the ‘Barbenheimer’ and ‘Glicked’ industry can’t make decent movies anymore.

Steve McQueen’s racial-identity tale takes revenge on his art patrons.

Cédric Kahn’s landmark courtroom movie does what American filmmakers can’t.

Coppola’s 1974 movie brings back social conscience.

Zack Snyder bungles myth and politics in Rebel Moon — Chapter Two: Curse of Forgiveness.