Latest Stories

• 
  Explosive Widows Dares to Be So Much More Than a Heist Flick

  November 15 at 6 a.m.

  This thoughtful, textured story — though brutal at times — stands as one of the clearest depictions of turmoil, racism and nepotism in local politics that’s ever been drawn onscreen

• 
  Green Book Marks the Unwelcome Return of the Cute Racism Movie

  November 13 at 6 a.m.

  The film is based on a true story, and its title comes from the guidebook Lip carries, which lists the hotels and motels where black people were welcome back then

• 
  In 1969, Stan Lee Told Angry Readers That Comics Must Stand Up for Civil Rights

  November 12 at 6:09 p.m.

  From Lee and Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko and John Romita and many more came the great flowering of ‘60s superheroes, the ones who seemed like human beings in ways that Superman or Batman didn’t

• 
  Netflix’s Outlaw King Is Just Beardo vs. Beardo in Scotland’s Mud Pits

  November 7 at 4:48 p.m.

  One lord scowls with even more surliness than the rest: Chris Pine is Robert the Bruce, a Scot who will, eventually, declare himself king of his country and wage guerrilla war against Edward

• 
  The Front Runner Exposes the Hart of a Political Sex Scandal

  November 7 at 6 a.m.

  ... This is less a film about Gary Hart — who, as played by Jackman, remains something of an enigma — than one about the operatives and volunteers and journalists swirling around his candidacy

• 
  The Corny Wiki-like Biopic Bohemian Rhapsody Can’t Dim Freddie Mercury’s Star

  November 6 at 6 a.m.

  It’s one of those biopics where everything significant that happened to a famous person happens all at once, in the couple of seconds of any given year that we see dramatized