We like to put the theater in Political Theater every so often. George Orwell, Ukrainian artists, the Christmas Adventurers ...

One Battle After Another is, perhaps, too on the nose. Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic depicts past and present revolutionaries fighting back against a heavily militarized, white-supremacist regime that ...

In movies like “Eddington,” “Sinners,” “Wake Up Dead Man” and others, filmmakers have at last wrapped their heads around how to explain this period. By Alissa Wilkinson One of the funniest moments in ...

The president has long criticized Clooney, an outspoken liberal activist and supporter of the Democratic Party ...

Some critics say that Oscar-buzzy films like One Battle After Another and After the Hunt don’t go far enough in their political commentary, which speaks to a growing expectation for straightforward ...