Barely Recognizable (2023)

Telling a story about the French and Indian Wars from the perspective of the British prioritizes the perspective of the colonizers. 

A young woman finds herself trapped in a crossfire of awkwardness during a nightmarish dinner party with her boyfriend's dysfunctional family.

The differences in these films could not be more blatant, and yet Gus Van Sant has found a way to portray the same messages and use the same techniques in each.

Some people’s first introduction to Mira Nair might be as New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mom. But with her insightful direction of 1991’s Mississippi Masala, Nair shows how much she deserves to be known as an artist. Delivering a nuanced portrait of a romance between a Black man and an Indian woman living in the South, Nair explores the complications each character faces, giving both equal weight.

A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.

Court TV shows offer uncritical eyes on the systemic inequalities of the legal world.