Arriving just weeks after “MLK/FBI,” Sam Pollard’s meticulous investigation of the FBI’s harassment campaign against Martin Luther King Jr., comes “Judas and the Black Messiah,” a similarly powerful and infuriating excavation of how the American criminal justice establishment sought to dismantle, silence and literally destroy the mid-century civil rights movement. The Black Messiah in question […]

Abigail, the protagonist of “The World to Come,” keeps a diary, which, along with thoughts laid down in her letters, provides the narration for this film, set in 1856 in rural upstate New York, and centering on the unhappily married wife of a dour farmer named Dyer (Casey Affleck). When Abigail (Katherine Waterston) mentions that […]