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The 10 Very Best Movies of 2021 (So Far) Warner Bros/Getty Images/A24 It's hard to know if the world will ever feel “normal” again, but we all keep puttering along, including the troubled movie industry. Although many major theatrical releases have gone straight to streaming or VOD, the movies released in the first half of this year consider intriguing questions. From the efficacy of collective action to the role of political education, the impact of the media and suffocating families or jobs, the best movies of 2021 can hold our hands through the rest of this hellish time and may even h...

Review: A Black commune weighs the past, present and future in 'The Inheritance' Sarah-Tai Black © Provided by The LA Times Chris Jarrell, from left, Nozipho Mclean and Eric Lockley in the movie "The Inheritance." (Grasshopper Film) What might a collectively authored Black future look like? For creative polymath Ephraim Asili, it is one that knows its past as well as its present. With his feature-length debut film "The Inheritance," the West Philadelphia-raised, New York-based filmmaker presents a reflectively avant-garde portrait of the connective threads between communit...

A celebration of Black artists and revolutionaries, Ephraim Asili's debut feature was inspired by Godard's 'La Chinoise.' Ephraim Asili calls his first feature-length film a remix of La Chinoise, Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 mélange of Maoist politics among idealistic young Parisians. With energy and wit, he achieves his goal of creating "a critique and an homage at the same time," but you don't need to be familiar with the earlier work to appreciate The Inheritance. It stands solidly on its own as a dynamic inquiry into revolutionary culture and Black identity, not to mention the challenge of l...

Print What might a collectively authored Black future look like? For creative polymath Ephraim Asili, it is one that knows its past as well as its present. With his feature-length debut film “The Inheritance,” the West Philadelphia-raised, New York-based filmmaker presents a reflectively avant-garde portrait of the connective threads between community making, historical archives and political awakening. Shaping an easy bricolage of what Asili refers to as a “speculative reenactment” of his time spent living in a Black radical collective, the Black Arts Movement, and the MOVE Black li...

For the most part, an “inheritance” left to you by an older relative or loved one is considered a personalized, even intimate, gift. An heirloom, perhaps, or a collection of items, or maybe even a certain amount of money, or a home—some sort of one-to-one relationship between the person doing the giving, and the person doing the receiving. And Ephraim Asili’s feature-length debut film “The Inheritance” begins with that setup: a young man inherits a West Philadelphia rowhome left to him by his grandmother. But “The Inheritance” deliberately and thought-provokingly shifts from t...