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Nickel Boys, by RaMell Ross, is a story about racial discrimination from the point of view of those who experienced it. Review and analysis

Released on Netflix on March 5, 2025, The Leopard is a miniseries based on Giuseppe Tomasi da Lampedusa novel with the same title.

Mussolini: Son of the Century is a 2025 Italian-French TV show that recounts the political rise of Benito Mussolini. Analysis and review.

Brady Corbet's third effort as writer-director, The Brutalist, is the cinematic equivalent of a Brutalist palace. Analysis and review.

The analysis and review of The Rose of Versailles: a historical drama, whose female-focused narrative and revolutionary protagonist achieved international recognition.

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 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.

Downton Abbey is a cult British historical drama about the intertwined lives of an English aristocratic family and their domestic servants.

To stop an apathetic master of disguise like Charles Sobhraj from committing atrocious crimes all over Asia, is a rather uneasy task.

The Crown shows what's behind the curtains of the Royal family of England. A story of humanity, happiness, pain, and love.

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 is an historical drama and a coming-of-age story, that witnesses the main characters' development in a world full of superstition.

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.

Aaron Sorkin’s directorial adventure The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a dramatization of the infamous proceedings which took place in 1968.

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.

The film Portrait of a Lady On Fire is, according to writer and director Céline Sciamma, “a manifesto about the female gaze.”

Published in 1981, Rushdie's Midnight’s Children is a tale of India's independence that combines historical fiction with magical realism.

Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea explores themes such as migration, loss, and memory through the recollections of its two main characters.

Written by Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms is one of the most relevant war novels of the 20th century.

Peau d'homme, the graphic novel by Hubert and Zanzim published in France in 2020, offers a reflection on sexuality, gender roles, and more.

Aired from 2013 to 2021, Vikings is a historical drama set in ancient times in North Europe, permeated with longing for conquer.

Set over two different centuries, Outlander tells the story of Jamie and Claire and their adventurous romance through the ages of Scotland.

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.

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.

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.

Ai Yoshimura's The Rose of Versailles, released worldwide by Netflix in April 2025, is an adaptation of Riyoko Ikeda's 1972 manga of the same name.

Here explores the flow of time through a room, where past, present and future events intertwine, revealing the connections between lives.

Luca Guadagnino's Queer, starring Daniel Craig, explores the longing for human connection. Learn more about its meaning on Hypercritic.

By transporting an ancient Roman to modern Japan, Thermae Romae shows the cultural relevance that bathing holds within the two societies.

With Gladiator, Ridley Scott brought the great epic back to the screen, combining awe-inspiring direction with the then-emerging talent of Russell Crowe.

This is the review and analysis of The Sympathizer, a Park Chan-wook TV show starring Hoa Xuande and Robert Downey Jr.

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.

Published in 1997, Marco Philopat's autobiography Costretti a sanguinare is a stream of consciousness in a punk world.

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 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.

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.

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 is a film by Robert Eggers, inspired by one of Edgar Allan Poe's short story, starring William Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.

The complex and mysterious narrative of the show skirts the border between historical research and artistic reinterpretation of the Sixties.

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 (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, A Study of Provincial Life was first published between 1871 and 1872 by Mary Anne Evans under the pen name of George Eliot.

In Babel, R.F. Kuang examines the role of translation and language in shaping power, identity, and resistance in a colonial context. Analysis and review.