My mistake, typical of white Americans, was treating slavery as if it were a mystery buried in the past.
There is a richness to “Roma” that will likely take multiple viewings to absorb. Every gesture is revealing; every image is a window.
The short but contentious reign of Queen Anne serves as a study of unbridled ambition and ruthless power.
The shimmer of liberal democracy has been tarnished with grit and grime, wear and tear. We are stuck in the ring, brawling in our stars-and-stripes shorts.
The film cuts through that numbness, painting a mural of human emotion where media portrayals of violence offer only a drop of splattered paint.