Motion pictures

New Movies

by Nat Segnit,

Early on in the movie adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s 2005 novel, Beasts of No Nation, Agu, the preteen protagonist, and his unnamed older brother have just pulled off an impish…

New Movies

by Daniel Mendelsohn,

At the climax of Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 homage to World War II genre movies, a German war hero who’s attending the premiere of a Nazi propaganda film based…

Legends of the Lost

by David Thomson,

The discreet charm of movies we cannot see

New Movies

by Rivka Galchen,

When inviting a bear from darkest Peru into your terraced London house, the first thing to do is increase the coverage on your homeowners’ insurance policy. “Yes, a bear .…

Here There Is No Why

by J. Hoberman,

The trial of 12 Years a Slave

Delhi Cuts

From a list of edits made by the Central Board of Film Certification, a statutory censorship body tasked with regulating publicly screened films in India, taken from the CBFC’s website.…