It’s no coincidence that many of the highest-acclaimed movies are also controversial. Serving beyond entertainment, these stories provoke essential social dialogues. As a case in point, here are the best discussion-sparking movies and shows available to stream now.
In 2017, the New York Times published a groundbreaking report by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that detailed, for the…
The award-winning third feature by director Ava DuVernay, Selma, was released around the 50th anniversary of the historically significant marches…
The question mark in the title represents the central idea of this fascinating documentary: what if worshipping Satan is the…
There is nothing quite like The Substance right now. It’s unsubtle, it’s provocative, and its satirical humor can be a…
You can probably predict from the title that an accident starts this thriller but what happens after is totally unexpected.…
In his last few months as president, Mariano de Santis has a few loose ends to tie up. This includes…
After the only war the Americans have lost, American post-Vietnam war portrayals tend to lean as patriotic revenge fantasies or…
Is there anything more lovely than hearing Martin Scorsese talk about cinema? Maybe it’s just the film nerds in us–…
Black Snow has the sleek style of a modern murder mystery, but its concern with Australia’s colonial past that sets…
From Ground Zero doesn’t have the most number of shorts within an anthology film, though it comes pretty close with…
On the one hand, How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a tense thriller—an excellently set-up heist that makes you…
Continuing her fight to tell the world the truth about her sexual assault case, journalist Shiori Ito released Black Box…
For the longest time, land was where people formed strength in community, where people were born, lived, died, and was…
Produced by National Geographic, A Small Light is a ten-part miniseries that tells the incredible true story of Miep Gies…
On the one hand, American Fiction is a razor-sharp satire that pokes fun at the hypocrisy of the literary and…
As a crime thriller, Holy Spider is taut and terrifying, a modern noir that manages to unnerve despite the familiar…
Since we live in a society, interacting with authority is inescapable. Terrestrial Verses depict fairly mundane day-to-day interactions– getting a…
As the third instalment in Paul Schrader’s “man in a room” trilogy after First Reformed (2017) and The Card Counter…
The idea of representation in movies is often limited to superficial gestures of putting on screen people who look a…
Frida Kahlo is an iconic Mexican painter, not just because of her outstanding art, but also because of her outlook…
At two hours and nearly 30 minutes, Stonewalling is quite long. The third film from spouses Ryuji Otsuka and Huang…
In this documentary about John Allen Chau — the American Christian missionary reportedly killed when he tried to preach the…
Nakedness has been demonized or at least, has been considered inappropriate outside of certain situations. One such situation is the…
While not its only cause, the increase of conflict and civil wars has spurred a global refugee crisis. Millions of…
Set in a small town in Romania, R.M.N. is a challenging slow-burn that explores what happens to an insular community…
This Oscar-nominated drama tells the story of the events leading up to the Srebrenica massacre, in which 8372 Bosnian Muslims…
Often deemed as South Asian John Wick, Monkey Man, of course, has plenty of the stylish action that’s been captivating…
Small Things Like These is the kind of film that doesn’t have a grand resolution, a dramatic climax, or a…
In films made about celebrities befriending normal people, we’ve seen the dynamic play out romantically or tragically in the end.…
After struggling to recapture the magic of the first few Star Trek series for the better part of two decades,…
What is Souleymane’s Story? Right off the bat, that’s what everyone asks from Souleymane. It’s what his fellow immigrant asks,…
This stagelike historical drama is about a meeting between Malcolm X, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Muhammad Ali, the night…
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