Capsule Reviews Archives - Hyperallergic

Hillbilly Elegy Tries, and Fails, to Understand the Working Class

by Dan Schindel November 26, 2020November 25, 2020

Based on the memoir by J.D. Vance, this film adaptation is the latest big piece of Hollywood poverty porn disguised as Oscar bait.

A Queer Twist on the Incredibly Heteronormative Holiday Romcom Genre

by Dan Schindel November 26, 2020November 25, 2020

Bringing Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me to Life

by Dan Schindel November 19, 2020November 18, 2020

Behind the Scenes at a Groundbreaking Clinic for Transgender People

by Dan Schindel November 19, 2020November 19, 2020

A Lively Reinterpretation of Charles Dickens

by Dan Schindel November 19, 2020November 19, 2020

How Artificial Intelligence Becomes Racist

by Dan Schindel November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

An Unheralded Film About Girlhood Gets a Second Chance

by Dan Schindel November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

A Documentary Portrait of Environmentalist Greta Thunberg

by Dan Schindel November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

A Mind-Controlling Assassin Starts to Lose Herself

by Dan Schindel November 5, 2020November 5, 2020

The Life and Times of War Reporter Robert Fisk

by Dan Schindel November 5, 2020November 17, 2020

Finding the Profundity in Pigeon Swarms, NYC Scaffolding, and More

by Dan Schindel November 5, 2020November 5, 2020

How a City Government Works, According to Frederick Wiseman

by Dan Schindel October 29, 2020November 5, 2020