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![Pachinko | The history of the forgotten](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/07/jet-dela-cruz-AOI_fg7A28w-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg.webp)
10 April, 2024
Pachinko | The history of the forgotten
Pachinko talks about big historical events through the eyes of the ordinary persons who had to survive them. With her rich prose, Lee tells without judgment the stories of her characters.
![Dickinson | The great American poet, revised](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/Dickinson_Photo_031002-scaled-1.jpg.webp)
19 May, 2022
Dickinson | The great American poet, revised
Dickinson is a greatly revised and stylized version of the real poet's youth and art. The result is a wacky and explosive half history drama, half teen comedy - with a 21st century soundtrack accompanying a 19th century setting.
![The Serpent | Asia's most famous serial killer](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/final_21502824_21502814-scaled-1.jpg.webp)
28 October, 2021
The Serpent | Asia's most famous serial killer
To stop an apathetic master of disguise like Charles Sobhraj from committing atrocious crimes all over Asia, is a rather uneasy task.
![The Crown | Royalty & the Grey Zone](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/TheCrown_105_3036r2-scaled-e1632996194890.jpg.webp)
30 September, 2021
The Crown | Royalty & the Grey Zone
The Crown shows what's behind the curtains of the Royal family of England. A story of humanity, happiness, pain, and love.
![Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/pexels-cottonbro-4629624-2-scaled-1.jpg.webp)
23 June, 2021
Jojo Rabbit | The best Nazi in the world
Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit tells the story of a boy whose best imaginary friend is Hitler and dreams of becoming the best Nazi in the world.
![Romulus | A coming-of-age story in the ancient Lazio](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Romulus-is-a-coming-of-age-story.jpg)
04 March, 2021
Romulus | A coming-of-age story in the ancient Lazio
Romulus is an historical drama and a coming-of-age story, that witnesses the main characters' development in a world full of superstition.
![Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/sebastian-kurpiel-QRvCumBeA7A-unsplash-1-scaled-e1612631161144.jpg)
17 February, 2021
Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film
If the plot of Throne of Blood sounds familiar, it’s because it translates Shakespeare’s Macbeth into film. Not just an adaptation, but a filiation that gains artistic independence thanks to all his betrayals, while staying true to the core of the tragedy.
![The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/C7-04035R-scaled-1.jpg.webp)
02 December, 2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today
Aaron Sorkin’s directorial adventure The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a dramatization of the infamous proceedings which took place in 1968.
![Selma | Drawing out the essence of Martin Luther King Jr.](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2048px-Abernathy_Children_on_front_line_leading_the_SELMA_TO_MONTGOMERY_MARCH_for_the_RIGHT_TO_VOTE.jpeg)
09 September, 2020
Selma | Drawing out the essence of Martin Luther King Jr.
Selma, while featuring King as protagonist, is noticeably not named after him. Rather it is named for the town in Alabama where, in 1965, he staged three voting rights marches in peaceful protest against the withholding of the vote from southern Black communities.
![Portrait of a Lady on Fire | A manifesto about the female gaze](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire-4clilies-films.jpg.webp)
29 May, 2020
Portrait of a Lady on Fire | A manifesto about the female gaze
The film Portrait of a Lady On Fire is, according to writer and director Céline Sciamma, “a manifesto about the female gaze.”
![Midnight's Children | An epic of Indian independence](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/12/street-g80bb41b50_1920-1.jpg.webp)
25 January, 2023
Midnight's Children | An epic of Indian independence
Published in 1981, Rushdie's Midnight’s Children is a tale of India's independence that combines historical fiction with magical realism.
![By the Sea | Silence, memory, and the acceptance of loss](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/07/image-from-rawpixel-id-3219940-jpeg-scaled.jpg.webp)
17 October, 2022
By the Sea | Silence, memory, and the acceptance of loss
Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea explores themes such as migration, loss, and memory through the recollections of its two main characters.
![A Farewell to Arms | A faithful testimony of wartime](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/stijn-swinnen-qwe8TLRnG8k-unsplash-1-scaled-1.jpg.webp)
01 March, 2022
A Farewell to Arms | A faithful testimony of wartime
Written by Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms is one of the most relevant war novels of the 20th century.
![Peau d'homme | A peek inside a different world](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/cover-3.jpg.webp)
31 January, 2022
Peau d'homme | A peek inside a different world
Peau d'homme, the graphic novel by Hubert and Zanzim published in France in 2020, offers a reflection on sexuality, gender roles, and more.
![Vikings | Violent Sehnsucht and Nordic allure](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2023/11/kristijan-arsov-tcw3nwoAgvs-unsplash-e1699456018976.jpg.webp)
08 November, 2023
Vikings | Violent Sehnsucht and Nordic allure
Aired from 2013 to 2021, Vikings is a historical drama set in ancient times in North Europe, permeated with longing for conquer.
![Outlander | An overwhelming romance through the ages of Scotland](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2023/02/More_Callanish_Stones_13547009015-scaled.jpg.webp)
05 April, 2023
Outlander | An overwhelming romance through the ages of Scotland
Set over two different centuries, Outlander tells the story of Jamie and Claire and their adventurous romance through the ages of Scotland.
![The Rose of Versailles | Putting politics into a children's anime](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/mathias-p-r-reding-AUDG_Ja0MOU-unsplash-2-scaled-1.jpg)
03 March, 2022
The Rose of Versailles | Putting politics into a children's anime
Born from Riyoko Ikeda's need to express her political views, The Rose of Versailles tells the story of Lady Oscar and the French Revolution.
![Downton Abbey | Upstairs and Downstairs Intrigues](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/tim-alex-h3ibPxnU5Og-unsplash.jpg)
24 February, 2022
Downton Abbey | Upstairs and Downstairs Intrigues
Downton Abbey is a cult British historical drama about the intertwined lives of an English aristocratic family and their domestic servants.
![Bridgerton | A Revolutionary Period Drama](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2021/02/BRIDGERTON_105_Unit_01500R2-scaled.jpg.webp)
25 February, 2021
Bridgerton | A Revolutionary Period Drama
Produced by Shonda Rhimes, Chris Van Dusen's Bridgerton is a groundbreaking period drama that aims to be a more inclusive and modern version of the genre.
![Chernobyl | What history can teach](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/Chernobyl-Credit-Liam-Daniel-HBO.jpeg.webp)
10 December, 2020
Chernobyl | What history can teach
The characters' actions are moved by simple heroism and integrity, and they are combined in a way that forces us to see the contradiction behind the word we use to define Chernobyl as a disaster: it wasn’t a natural catastrophe, it was man-made - therefore, it could be avoided.
![Alfredino | Reconstruction of a national tragedy](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/gary-meulemans-J8sh37XZ8ww-unsplash-3-scaled-1.jpg.webp)
16 December, 2021
Alfredino | Reconstruction of a national tragedy
June 10th, 1981 is a date that marks an emotional wound on Italian recent history. In 2021, forty years later, Alfredino - An Italian Story tries to reproduce the events of those painful days.
![Costretti a Sanguinare | A stream of consciousness in a punk world](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/Slam_durante_el_concierto_de_Punk-scaled-1.jpeg.webp)
15 June, 2021
Costretti a Sanguinare | A stream of consciousness in a punk world
Published in 1997, Marco Philopat's autobiography Costretti a sanguinare is a stream of consciousness in a punk world.
![Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/homeless-845709_1920.jpg)
22 February, 2021
Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio
Liborio’s life is a tough one, the life of an outcast. Several times he gets close to entering society, but then something always happens which pushes him back.
![The Queen's Gambit | A western on the chessboard](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/The-Queens-Gambit-Credits-by-PHIL-BRAY-NETFLIX-scaled-1.jpg.webp)
15 January, 2021
The Queen's Gambit | A western on the chessboard
The Queen's Gambit is a powerful coming-of-age story but also a western, in its way of showing every match on the screen as a remastered duel between cowboys.
![Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/WM_102_03262019_MH_0508-3-1.jpg.webp)
16 July, 2020
Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero
It takes place thirty-four years after the original and has the merit of reconsidering the superhero mythology in a different framework: that of racial discrimination.
![My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/key-art.jpeg.webp)
11 May, 2020
My Brilliant Friend has a unifying power
Published in 2011, My Brilliant Friend is enigmatic writer Elena Ferrante’s fifth book and the first of her internationally successful tetralogy Neapolitan Novels. Read and discussed everywhere - in noisy kitchens as well as crowded university classrooms - Ferrante’s books have been analyzed, devoured, and finally turned into a tv series produced by HBO, in 2018.
![The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/lighthouse4.0.jpg.webp)
08 March, 2020
The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity
The Lighthouse is a film by Robert Eggers, inspired by one of Edgar Allan Poe's short story, starring William Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.
![Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/mad-men-cast-scaled-1.jpg.webp)
21 February, 2020
Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society
The complex and mysterious narrative of the show skirts the border between historical research and artistic reinterpretation of the Sixties.
![Underworld | A dual conception of history](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ny-pic-scaled-1.jpg)
18 February, 2020
Underworld | A dual conception of history
Don Delillo's Underworld sports all the fittings of the Great American Novel: the length, the epic dimension, the complexity of its themes, its entanglement with American history. Like Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, Underworld constructs an almost anthropological representation of the fifty-year period between the Cold War and the Nineties.
![A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2022/04/8355440980_92cab5535d_o-scaled-1.jpg.webp)
22 September, 2020
A Private Affair overlaps a personal and a civil dilemma
A Private Affair (Una Questione Privata) is a short, dense, and incredibly well-written novel by Beppe Fenoglio. Published posthumously in 1963 the book succeeds in narrating the drama of the Italian Resistance in WWII, intertwining a private and small story with the collective history.
![Middlemarch | Victorian sensitivities and modern readings](https://hypercritic.org/wp-content/uploads-webpc/uploads/2023/09/image-from-rawpixel-id-9201189-jpeg.jpg.webp)
16 October, 2023
Middlemarch | Victorian sensitivities and modern readings
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life was first published between 1871 and 1872 by Mary Anne Evans under the pen name of George Eliot.
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Playing Kafka | An absurdist video game born from a public-private partnership
Posted on 25 July 2024
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | A manifesto against the system
Posted on 6 July 2024
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Megalopolis | Coppola’s Hope for a Better Society is not enough
Posted on 4 July 2024
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My Last Duchess, by Robert Browning | A portrait of violence
Posted on 27 June 2024
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House of the Dragon | How Targaryens ruled before Game of Thrones
Posted on 17 June 2024
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Ripley | A glacial neo-noir dressed in warm black and white
Posted on 17 May 2024
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Pachinko | The history of the forgotten
Posted on 10 April 2024
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The Museum of Innocence | A Declaration of Love to a City
Posted on 27 February 2024
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The Red and The Black | The Quest to be Napoleon
Posted on 29 December 2023
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Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory | An Allegory of the Deadly Sins
Posted on 27 December 2023
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Nana by Ai Yazawa | A mature shojo sensation
Posted on 30 November 2023