In Matthew Rankin’s visually exuberant film, a candidate for prime minister copes with fascism and fetishism in a bizarro-world version of Canada’s past. By Nicolas Rapold When you purchase a ticket ...

Director Matthew Rankin's debut 'The Twentieth Century' took home the Best Canadian First Feature prize in Toronto. By Jordan Mintzer If you thought the sight of Justin Trudeau wearing his favorite ...

This psychedelic reinvention of the formative years of former Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King hits virtual cinemas November 20. Part German Expressionist throwback, part tripped-out midnight ...

Indebted to Guy Maddin, German Expressionism, and Elaine May all at once, “The Twentieth Century” resolves as a mega-silly but oddly sincere caricature of a nation’s cuckolded spirit. Whereas even the ...

'Century' is filled with delightfully improbable madcap action, flamboyant musical numbers and polished, inventive choreography by Warren Carlyle. There's even an adorable quartet of tap-dancing ...

One hundred years after the outbreak of World War I and the Russian Revolution, none of the problems of the twentieth century—devastating wars, economic crises, social inequality, and the threat of ...

On July 31, 1903, a letter addressed to President Theodore Roosevelt arrived at the White House. It had been mailed from the town of Bainbridge, Georgia, the prosperous seat of a cotton county perched ...

Your support goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership or give a one-time contribution, we’ll give a membership to someone who can’t afford access. It’s a simple way for you ...

Genres are the Sirens of literary criticism. They seem friendly and alluring, but they are dangerously elusive shape-shifters. You really have to lash yourself to the mast. There is also the problem ...

In the four years since the Walt Disney Company bought 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight, the core studio — now known as 20th Century Studios — has become for the most part a content mill for its ...