Alexander Stern

Aki Kaurismäki’s ‘Fallen Leaves’ displays the director's wry humor, spare style, and focus on social inequality.

Striking autoworkers resist an economy designed to make the rich richer no matter the cost.

Technocratic neoliberalism is not the rightful heir of the liberal tradition, but an anti-democratic distortion of it.

Celine Song’s debut film, ‘Past Lives,’ suggests that a past can take on dimensions more profound precisely because it is left behind.

Cyril Schäublin’s latest film—capturing the efforts of 19th-century anarchist watchmakers—dramatizes resistance to tech-reliant, capitalist control.

A recent spate of “eat-the-rich” shows and films—including the Oscar-nominated ‘Triangle of Sadness’—fail to offer any alternative to the ethos of the ultra-wealthy.