Good movies serve beyond entertainment, to expand perspectives and improve our understanding of humanity and the world. If you’re hungry for some food for thought, here are the best smart 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…
After the only war the Americans have lost, American post-Vietnam war portrayals tend to lean as patriotic revenge fantasies or…
Dark Matter may be a sci-fi series, the latest in Apple TV+’s ever-growing roster of the genre, but it’s tonally…
Taking the violence and offbeat comedy of the original movie and adding constantly expanding narratives on top of it, Noah…
On the one hand, American Fiction is a razor-sharp satire that pokes fun at the hypocrisy of the literary and…
It’s difficult to describe Mrs. Davis without sounding a little bit insane. It is, after all, a sci-fi series that…
The idea of representation in movies is often limited to superficial gestures of putting on screen people who look a…
Small Things Like These is the kind of film that doesn’t have a grand resolution, a dramatic climax, or a…
After struggling to recapture the magic of the first few Star Trek series for the better part of two decades,…
This stagelike historical drama is about a meeting between Malcolm X, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Muhammad Ali, the night…
Evil Does Not Exist begins a simple enough parable about the dangers of disrupting the delicate balance of nature, particularly…
After 2019’s The Souvenir—a drama about a toxic, suffocating relationship—director Joanna Hogg brings back her protagonist (played by a superb…
Fans of the iconic crime series 24 will find much to like in Rabbit Hole, not least because Kiefer Sutherland…
There is a very good case to be made for Veep being, pound-for-pound, the best American comedy to air on…
Dementia has been depicted in film before, but writer-director Sarah Friedland’s debut feature takes a stronger interest in Ruth’s journey,…
To plenty of countries around the globe, democracy has become so ubiquitous that we forget it’s relatively new, at least…
The key to what makes this apocalyptic thriller from Mr Robot and Homecoming showrunner Sam Esmail so unnerving is how…
Far more self-aware than one might think, Dear White People isn’t just a progressive comedy that puts its politics front…
In the year of the Netflix TV Show Maniac, another absurdist title stole critics’ hearts. Sorry to Bother You is…
Though it primarily revolves around the conservative, anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly (portrayed as a fascinatingly contradictory character by Cate Blanchett), Mrs.…
A revelation of a movie, both in filmmaking and commercial success. While little-known abroad, it has made more than $42 million in…
Not much happens in Women Talking, but what it lacks in action it more than makes up for in message.…
This is a hilarious political comedy starring the ever-great Steve Buscemi. Set in the last days before Stalin’s death and…
Using the documentary form with supreme clarity and righteous fury, Lakota Nation vs. United States distills hundreds of years of…
In his last film, American Serb film historian Peter Bogdanovich celebrates silver screen legend Buster Keaton. The subject alone is…
Demonstrating that a great stand-up routine should always stem from strong writing first and foremost, Brian Simpson makes common subjects…
Filled with dense conversations about classical music and cryptic suggestions of a guilty conscience, Tár makes for a challenging watch…
Almost more like an audiobook than a traditional movie, the first and unfortunately final film from Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson…
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