The daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, Ottalie Mark left her mark on the film industry—and the music industry—a century ago
We are now told to see movies not because they challenge our preconceptions but precisely because they don’t
Christopher Nolan’s new biopic shows J. Robert Oppenheimer as he really was—an American Prometheus divided at his core
Male jealousy, Bond girls, and boozing with your Brah
A new film explores the life of a mad, reclusive genius who depicted the vanished world of Yiddish America
The new Netflix offering accurately portrays the yawning void at the heart of secular Jewish and African American identity
Jonah Hill’s latest is a parade of mindless, self-denigrating tropes—and Hollywood Jews are angry
How Red Scare’s Dasha Nekrasova turns awfulness into art
Don’t hurry back to the theaters for this one, folks
A 2019 Israeli film explores love, war, and the immigrant experience
A chillingly prescient 1924 Austrian film gets new life—and ‘incandescent’ relevance—in a miraculous Blu-ray restoration
This year, as cinemas shut down, Tablet’s critic found streaming lockdown escapist gems in clever counterhistories, rich and inventive documentaries, and rediscovered classics of Yiddish cinema. And Roy Cohn.
Is Pawel Pawlikowski’s new film ‘Ida’ the Polish answer to ‘Aftermath,’ or a story of Jewish suffering and sacrifice?
An excerpt from ‘Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker’: Dreaming, With ‘Eyes Wide Shut’
Seth Rogen commits Jew-on-Jew violence in a subversive new film
The great film and social document illuminates a primal fear—that of foreign contagion
Rokhl’s Golden City: Classic movies you can see on the big screen—and rarer curiosities you should seek out
What Jordan Peele’s visionary new film reveals about the Jussie Smollett affair and the monsters stalking American society in the digital age
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