Chloé Zhao’s ’The Rider’—a film about a Native American man on a reservation, made by a Chinese-American woman from the city—may be this year’s best American film
With an assist from Clint Eastwood, the big-screen adaptation of Richard Wagamese’s novel is an ambitious collaboration between Indigenous talent and white filmmakers
Armando Iannucci’s ’Death of Stalin’ achieves the remarkable: hilariously skewering a murderous dictator. But even he thinks Trump may reveal comedy’s limits
In an Oscars ceremony that capped off Hollywood’s annus horribilis, it’s no great shock that Best Picture went to a comfortable, inoffensive morality tale