Review

Richard Holbrooke was a symbol of his country’s promise as a superpower—and its decline.

David Shulman’s diaries of resisting the Israeli occupation show the limits of activism in the face of rampant dispossession and despair.

Hotel Mumbai is a tale of courage. It is also a worrying reminder of India’s security flaws.

A glitz and glam song competition turns political.

A slate of new releases reexamine gender in conflict.

Jia Zhangke’s "Ash Is Purest White," socially critical yet officially sanctioned, strikes a middle path for Chinese cinema.

La perturbadora elegancia del blanco y negro

Alfonso Cuarón’s masterpiece may be Oscar worthy, but it fails to address the problems of Latin American households.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has tried to keep the Islamist group in check, but the situation in Gaza is as unstable as ever.

In Capernaum, Nadine Labaki finds a new way for film to deal with poverty.

A new video game captures the anxiety of Chinese parenting.

1,200 newly translated poems from Bertolt Brecht offer an unexpected survival guide for difficult times.