Tag: History

The most interesting thing Iko Uwais does in Timur has surprisingly little to do with throwing ...

Reykjavík turns nuclear strategy into a question of distance. Michael Russell Gunn’s The Brink of War ...

Cooking acquires a sinister political vocabulary when the person waiting for dinner can imprison the chef, ...

Tony Dhanoa asks his pilots what they think about the peace summit with Pakistan, lets them ...

Rachel Mason builds her cold-case documentary around an inconvenience to the standard true-crime script: the LAPD ...

Hunger makes the first meal obscene before fear has time to do the work. Rosa Sauer ...

Tom Hiddleston turns a professor’s spreadsheet into a glowing three-dimensional display, then credits his familiarity with ...

Lukas is scanning groceries when the Mediterranean refugee crisis stops being an abstract news story. A ...

Spain’s summer celebrations collapse when television screens announce Miguel Ángel Blanco’s abduction. The cut defines the ...

The Chishui River keeps changing direction, and the film edits as if stillness would count as ...