Manhunt
When President Abraham Lincoln (Hamish Linklater) is shot in 1865 by one of the nation’s most famous actors (Anthony Boyle), War Secretary Edwin Stanton (Tobias Menzies) begins an intense manhunt.…
Shirley
A political biography that shares similarities with the recent Rustin. Both films are traditional, respectable but somewhat underwhelming in terms of emotional impact. Both tell a story about civil rights…
Oppenheimer: Destroyer of Worlds
Cillian Murphy. Photo: Universal There’s a sex scene in this film that generated negative buzz, where Oppenheimer’s girlfriend tells him to read a Sanskrit passage aloud while she’s riding him.…
Succession: Lion in Winter
Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Brian Cox, Sarah Snook and Alan Ruck. Photo: HBO Jesse Armstrong, the British writer who created Succession, first intended to tackle the Murdochs, the Australian billionaire…
The Comey Rule
As the 2016 election approaches, the FBI are investigating Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, putting Director James Comey (Jeff Daniels) in an impossible situation.…
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Cleaning Up the Swamp
Claude Rains and James Stewart. Photo: Columbia No one finds Frank Capra’s best movie controversial today. But it certainly was back in 1939. Many politicians and reporters in Washington saw…
The Final Year
The director, who’s made several documentaries about America’s role in the world, got access to President Barack Obama and his foreign-policy team during the administration’s last year. We follow Obama…
Get Me Roger Stone
After the 2016 presidential election, it only seemed logical to see a documentary about the shameless Republican strategist Roger Stone – getting Donald Trump into the White House was after…
Trumped: Inside the Greatest Political Upset of All Time
After Mark Halperin and John Heilemann spent months and months covering the 2016 presidential election for the Showtime series The Circus, this summary in the shape of a documentary feature…
Jackie: After Dealey Plaza
Caspar Phillipson and Natalie Portman. Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures Chilean director Pablo Larraín was about to make his first American film, but had doubts. He had been offered a biopic…