PhotoPhotoPhotoPhotoI can’t think of a previous batch of statuette-season contenders so politically on point and of the moment, and I credit — although that’s not quite the right word — Donald Trump. Yes, some of the movies being celebrated now were first dreamed up or set in motion even before he announced his candidacy in June 2015. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe themes of the Trump era are the themes of these movies. View all New York Times newsletters. Put these movies together and you have a cinematic syllabus for a course on America right now.

Source: New York Times January 03, 2018 00:11 UTC