Ava DuVernay
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3 out of 5 stars.
Funny Boy review – Sri Lankan rites-of-passage tale clashes with political reality
3 out of 5 stars.Arush Nand is very good as a gay Tamil boy in Deepa Mehta’s coming-of-age drama set in a period building to civil war
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Ava DuVernay among those highlighting platform’s lack of action over abusive tweets
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5 out of 5 stars.A visually striking and timely film from first-time writer-director Merawi Gerima sees a film-maker returning to an unrecognisable DC neighbourhood
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Winfrey releases footage of recent interview in which congressman says: ‘I tried to do what was right, fair and just’
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Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay are teaming up on a scripted series on the former NFL quarterback’s teenage years
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Former Central Park Five prosecutor Linda Fairstein is suing Ava DuVernay and Netflix for painting her as a ‘racist, unethical villain’
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Novelist clarifies controversial comments about diversity, acknowledging that while in a perfect world ‘judgments of creative excellence should be blind’, we’re not there yet
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Ava DuVernay and Roxane Gay criticized author after he said he ‘would never consider diversity in matters of art’
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The pick of the year’s top television featured ghosts, gangsters, comedy buffoons – and a hot priest
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Phillip Youmans used his own savings to make his award-winning debut film, attracting the attention of Ava DuVernay
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Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000
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The surprise success of devastating fact-based dramas Chernobyl and When They See Us has shown that summer audiences aren’t always seeking escapism
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Women Make Film review – an epic trip through cinema's undiscovered world
4 out of 5 stars.