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In this profound and cutting portrayal of James Baldwin, “I Am Not Your Negro” (2016), Raoul Peck traced the haunted connection between two things: Baldwin’s extraordinary insight into being Black in America; and the depth of his sadness, self-doubt as well as relentless truth-telling. For Baldwin, it was always personal and political all at once […]

It would be a big job to set side by side the story of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba’s murder with Louis Armstrong’s musical tour and the United Nations’ expansion after Africa was decolonized in the 1960s. But it’s even trickier to tell this convoluted tale, filled with multiple characters and plot twists, non-chronologically while filling

It has been known for a long time that plastic is very harmful to the environment. Ben Addelman and Ziya Tong have edited a film which reveals its effect on our bodies. “Plastic People” is one of those must-see documentaries about our world. Whenever it is released (it had its premiere this week at SXSW),

FOLLOWERS is about three women (Revell Carpenter, Molly Edelman, and Gigi James) who are attacked by fans in masks after their livestreamed hiking trip attracts obsessive viewers. A year later, one of the girls sold her story to Netflix, another seems to have moved on, but the last is still grappling with what happened. Feeling

Remember that films like Last Night at Terrace Lanes are not big Hollywood productions. With about one-thirtieth of the budget, director Jamie Nash and company are swinging for the fences and you have to give them props for it, even if it doesn’t end up being a homerun. But hey, getting on base is still

Knowing that a new Alien movie is coming out, you know there will be a mockbuster to cash in on it. So the appearance of Alien Hunt is no shock. What might be surprising is that it’s not The Asylum this time, but prolific indie filmmaker Aaron Mirtes (The OctoGames, The Alpha Test). In its

This writer-director-mogul has a multimillion-dollar empire, but his newest movie is just another disappointment. Only Tyler Perry could come up with such a plot twist: four years after announcing an $800 million expansion of his 330-acre (133-hectare) film and TV studio; Perry cancelled the project because of a new OpenAI tool that uses text prompts

Oh, Mercy! Just added to the catalog, Roubaix, One Lumière fully enters our selection of films to see on Amazon Prime Video. The film is inspired by a real-life news story that occurred in 2002 and by the documentary by Mosco Boucault Roubaix, Commissariat Central. Commissioner Daoud entrusts newcomer Louis with the case of an

Samson  At the dawn of the second decade of the 21st century, Tom Dey directs a comedy starring a wonderful white Great Dane, whom everyone—adults and animals—makes fun of for his clumsiness. Despite this, Samson does not lose his enthusiasm and is always ready to conquer those who are willing to watch him. Accompanied by

Collateral Also at the beginning of the century, precisely in 2004. Collateral was released in theaters, directed by the great Michael Mann. After the success of his previous film, Ali, where Will Smith plays the famous boxer, Muhammed Ali. This time Mann turns to the thriller. It Starring Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise in great