The past year has been a defining moment for Black cinema, with films that spanned genres, shattered expectations, and captivated audiences worldwide. From the inspirational resilience of Shirley, ...

Remember when we had to search far and wide for quality Black representation in films? Well, 2024 is serving us a feast of incredible stories that are impossible to ignore. From the streets of ancient ...

“Tell all the truth,” Emily Dickinson writes, “but tell it slant.” In terms of film coverage, our bread and butter here at Hyperallergic is documentary. But as our coverage writ large — reviews, ...

As the year draws to a close, the urge to compile “best of the year” lists feels both inevitable and deeply complicated. In a world grappling with profound crises—most notably the genocide in ...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. Nickel Boys finds its own lane on the same ...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. 2024 saw the flicker of a major flame in the ...

Something that The A.V. Club noted in our breakdown of the best films of 2024 is that, as the industry becomes more polarized between massive too-big-to-fail franchise films and all-but-ignored indies ...