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By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS NEW YORK (AP) — Sneaking a little ahead of line to get on that plane faster? American Airlines might stop you . In an apparent effort to reduce the headaches caused by airport line cutting, American has rolled out boarding technology that alerts gate agents with an audible sound if a passenger tries to scan a ticket ahead of their assigned group. This new software won’t accept a boarding pass before the group it’s assigned to is called, so customers who get to the gate prematurely will be asked to go back and wait their turn. As of Wednesday, the airline announced, the technology is now being used in more than 100 U.S. airports that American flies out of. The official expansion arrives after successful tests in three of these locations — Albuquerque International Sunport, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Tucson International Airport. The initial response from customers and American employees “has exceeded our expectations,” Julie Rath, American’s senior vice president of airport operations, reservations and service recovery, said in a statement. She added that the airline is “thrilled” to have the technology up and running ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday . American got lots of attention when it unveiled its gate-control testing last month. Analysts say that isn’t surprising. It’s no secret that line cutting in airports hits a nerve. Whether intentional or not, just about every air traveler has witnessed it, noted Henry Harteveldt, an airline industry analyst with Atmosphere Research Group. It can add to frustrations in what can already be a tense environment, with particular anxiety around passengers wanting to sit together or rushing for some overhead bin space. Harteveldt doesn’t see American’s recent move as “shaming” customers who cut the line. “What it is intended to do is bring order out of chaos,” he said. “And I hope it will defuse any potential flare ups of anger (from) people who simply think they’re entitled to board out of turn .... It’s just not fair.” Harteveldt added that he thinks this change will enhance the experiences of both customers and gate agents. Others say more time will tell. Seth Miller, editor and founder of air travel experience analysis site PaxEx.aero, said he can see the benefits of more orderly and universal gate-control enforcement, particularly for airlines. But he said he isn’t “100% convinced this is perfect for passengers” just yet. Families, for example, might be booked on several different reservations across more than one group, he said. Airlines typically have workarounds for that, and American noted Wednesday that customers traveling with a companion in an earlier group can simply have a gate agent “override the alert” to continue boarding. Still, Miller said, “you have to go through the extra hoops.” And a difficult customer still might choose to hold up the line and argue when they’re not allowed to board, he added. Related Articles National News | Bob Casey concedes Pa. Senate race, congratulates Dave McCormick on win National News | A Mexican cartel leader arrested in the US faked his death and assumed a phony name, prosecutors say National News | Major storm drops record rain, downs trees in Northern California after devastation further north National News | SEC Chair Gary Gensler, who led US crackdown on cryptocurrencies, to step down National News | ACLU sues government for records detailing Trump’s mass deportation plan Another question is whether customers who encounter a beep will walk away feeling embarrassed. But Harteveldt said he was happy to learn that American’s alert is “not a bellowing sound that can be heard throughout the terminal,” or accompanied by your name read over a loudspeaker, noting that this is important to avoid feelings of shame. Expanding this technology just a week before peak Thanksgiving travel could be “both good and bad,” Harteveldt adds. On one hand, the tech could help significantly improve the boarding process during such a busy time, he said, but airport employees might also have appreciated more time to prepare. Both Miller and Harteveldt said they wouldn’t be surprised if other carriers soon follow American’s lead. Headaches over airport line cutting are far from new. While maybe not to the extent of American’s new tech, Miller noted he’s seen gate agents from other airlines ask people to leave a line and wait for their group. Harteveldt added that he’s been to some airports in Asia and Europe with “sliding doors” that ensure passengers are in the right group before boarding a plane. The more than 100 airports that American is now using its gate-control technology in are all spoke, or non-hub, locations — including Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The airline says it expects to further expand to its hubs and other airports in the coming months.Ventive Hospitality shares are set to make their stock market debut today after receiving strong response for its initial public offering (IPO). Ventive Hospitality IPO listing date is today, December 30, and the equity shares of the company will be listed on both the stock exchanges, BSE and NSE. Ventive Hospitality IPO issue was open from December 20 to 24, and the IPO allotment was finalised on December 26. “Trading Members of the Exchange are hereby informed that effective from Monday, December 30, 2024, the equity shares of Ventive Hospitality Limited shall be listed and admitted to dealings on the Exchange in the list of ‘B’ Group of Securities,” said a notice on BSE. Ventive Hospitality shares will be a part of Special Pre-open Session (SPOS) on Monday, and the stock will be available for trading from 10:00 AM. Ahead of the share listing, trends for Ventive Hospitality IPO grey market premium (GMP) today indicates a positive debut. Analysts also expect Ventive Hospitality shares to list at a premium to the IPO price. Ventive Hospitality IPO GMP Today Ventive Hospitality IPO GMP today is ₹ 70 per share, according to stock market observers. This indicates that in the grey market, Ventive Hospitality shares are trading higher by ₹ 70 apiece than their issue price. Ventive Hospitality Listing Price Considering the Ventive Hospitality IPO GMP today, the estimated listing price of Ventive Hospitality shares would be ₹ 713 apiece, a premium of 11% from the IPO price of ₹ 643 per share. Analysts also predict Ventive Hospitality share listing to be at a premium of around 10% to the issue price. “ Ventive Hospitality IPO received a decent response despite being priced at high valuations. So, I am expecting a positive debut for the company shares. One can expect the Ventive Hospitality IPO listing at around 10% to 12% premium,” said Arun Kejriwal, founder of Kejriwal Research and Investment Services. According to Akriti Mehrotra, Research Analyst, StoxBox, Ventive Hospitality IPO, oversubscribed 10.33 times, is set to debut today, with an 11% premium above the upper price band. “The company operates 11 luxury properties, including flagship hotels like JW Marriott Pune and The Ritz-Carlton Pune, benefiting from strong partnerships with global brands such as Marriott and Hilton. However, its reliance on third-party operators for 78% of its keys exposes it to reputational risks. Ventive also generates 41% of its revenue from annuity assets, providing stable cash flows. With a strong financial track record, including a 44% revenue CAGR, and plans for expansion, we recommend holding shares for medium to long-term growth,” said Mehrotra. Ventive Hospitality IPO Details The ₹ 1,600-crore worth Ventive Hospitality IPO was open for subscription from December 20 to 24 and the IPO allotment was finalised on December 26. Ventive Hospitality IPO listing date is today, December 30 and the Ventive Hospitality shares will be listed on BSE and NSE. Ventive Hospitality IPO price band was set at ₹ 610 to ₹ 643 per share, and the issue was entirely a fresh issue of 2.49 crore equity shares. Ventive Hospitality IPO received 9.82 times subscription in total as it garnered bids for 14.17 crore equity shares as against IPO size of 1.44 crore shares. The retail investors portion was booked 5.94 times, while the Non Institutional Investors (NII) portion was subscribed 13.87 times. The Qualified Institutional Buyers (QIBs) category received 9.08 times subscription. 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(Bloomberg) -- Investors have a challenge in betting on the usual stock market rally that tends to arrive after a presidential election: With the S&P 500 Index on track for one of its best ever starts to a year, history can’t be a guide this time. Most Read from Bloomberg NYC's Underground Steam System May Be Key to a Greener Future NYC Gets Historic Push for 80,000 Homes With $5 Billion Pledge In Kansas City, a First-Ever Stadium Designed for Women’s Sports Takes the Field Trump Promises Could Have Seismic Impact on Washington Economy NYC Mayor Adams Names Jessica Tisch to Lead Police Head Amid Probes Buying US stocks into year-end following a vote is the classic trading playbook. Historically, the S&P 500 has posted a median return of 5% from Election Day in November to the end of the year, according to data compiled by Deutsche Bank AG. Even the riskiest pockets like small-capitalization companies typically catch a bid in the rising tide. But this is hardly a classic election year. The S&P 500 is up 25% in 2024 after leaping 24% in 2023, putting the index on pace for its first back-to-back years of more than 20% gains since the late 1990s. As a result, share prices are high, with the S&P 500 trading at more than 22 times projected 12-month earnings, compared with an average reading of 18 in the last decade. And positioning data shows traders are already heavily invested in equities. Meanwhile, familiar foes from the past few years, rising bond yields and the threat of persistent inflation, loom in the background. All of which has the stock market set up for a potentially quiet holiday season — as opposed to the ragers of election years past. “With valuations elevated and the S&P 500 already near 6,000, the market will creep higher from here,” said Eric Beiley, executive managing director of wealth management at Steward Partners. “But I don’t see a big year-end rally because rising yields will keep investors at bay.” No Hurry The Federal Reserve has lowered interest rates twice since September. But recently, central bankers indicated that they aren’t in a hurry to go further. At the same time, Treasury yields have jumped to multi-month highs after US president-elect Donald Trump’s election victory ignited bets that his economic plans like large import tariffs and mass deportations of low-wage undocumented workers could stoke inflation and hurt growth, possibly reducing the Fed’s scope to cut interest rates. This explains why Wall Street strategists have been dialing back their rate reduction expectations since Trump’s election victory. The six months from November to April are historically the best part of the year for US equities because companies and pension plans tend to increase their stock buying starting on Nov. 1, according to the Stock Trader’s Almanac. However, those year-end rallies typically aren’t as robust when the S&P 500 has already risen at least 20%. In that case, since the 1970s the average return from now to Dec. 31 has been roughly 1%, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Of course, this bull-market rally has gone far beyond these levels, with the S&P 500 up almost 70% since bottoming in October 2022. That will curb gains into late December, according to Savita Subramanian, head of US equity and quantitative strategy at Bank of America Corp. “Sentiment and positioning based on at least five indicators have grown dangerously bullish, leaving less room for positive surprises,” she wrote in a note to clients on Nov. 15. Heavy Hedging Already, some of the riskiest parts of the market are showing signs of weakness. Small-cap stocks, for instance, have erased most of their post-election rally as concern grows about the Fed’s rate path. And uncertainty over higher borrowing costs is prompting investors to hedge against sharp declines. Demand for far out-of-the-money put options on the S&P 500, technology-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index and small-cap Russell 2000 Index has risen to levels last seen during the heavy volatility ahead of the election, according to Kevin Brocks of 22V Research. That said, the rally isn’t necessarily in jeopardy simply because there’s growing speculation that the market has run too far. Valuations and investor sentiment can stay frothy for weeks — even months — before stocks suffer a significant drop, said Max Kettner, chief multi-asset strategist at HSBC Bank Plc, adding that there are “very few reasons to suggest a year-end rally has already been front-loaded.” Indeed, investors keep funneling money into stocks: They put $16.4 billion into US equities in the week through Nov. 20, marking the seventh consecutive weekly inflow, according to a Bank of America note citing EPFR Global data. The optimism isn’t entirely surprising. Looking at history, the S&P 500’s advance over the past two years isn’t even half of the 143% average gain in the 16 prior bull runs since 1945, according to Birinyi Associates. What investors most want to see when judging the rally’s strength is the gains broadening beyond the megacap tech that have been powering indexes higher on enthusiasm for artificial intelligence. It’s starting to happen, as the S&P 500 Equal Weight Index is outperforming the regular market-cap weighted version of the benchmark since Election Day, with financials, energy and consumer discretionary shares leading the way. In the end, however, it may be the bond market that sends the loudest signal for stock prices. If Treasury yields stay high and the Fed stands pat, there are serious risks to betting on significant further gains in equities. “A broadening rally is crucial but the one thing standing in the way of a strong advance for stocks the rest of the year is the bond market,” said Jamie Cox, managing partner at Harris Financial Group. “That may ultimately put a lid on a hefty year-end rally.” --With assistance from Natalia Kniazhevich. 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With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of the best art films of the year. This list, as you might expect, is eclectic, jump-roping between avant-garde short film and YouTube essays, feature-length investigative documentaries and the intrepid, iterative efforts of late-night talk shows. These works of moving image tell truths that cannot be as thoroughly or artfully conveyed in any other medium, such as the “whirring body” of Loïe Fuller in Obsessed With Light , which Eileen G’Sell likens to “a lambent flower.” Or the relentless use of extended footage of people doing the same repetitive work in sweatshops in Wang Bing’s Homecoming trilogy — “if you think it’s hard to sit through,” Dan Schindel writes, “imagine what it’s like to do that work.” Sorted by release date in North America, here are the top films of 2024. — Lisa Yin Zhang Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. Daily Weekly Opportunities No Other Land , directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor From the moment it debuted at the Berlinale Film Festival in mid-February, this was the most controversial documentary of the year, spawning death threats for its directors. This searing film, which looks into encroaching Israeli settlements in the West Bank, arrived just a few months into the country’s ongoing assault against Gaza. In the back and forth between the Palestinian and Israeli members of the filmmaking collective behind the camera, the movie captures how a synthesis of viewpoints frames every media object we see. Amidst 2024’s deluge of images of Palestinian suffering and resilience, this film’s contribution — its portrait of constant rebuilding, and protest, and resistance — should not go overlooked, even as it still can’t find a distributor in the United States. — Dan Schindel Read our original review. Pictures of Ghosts , directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho Among current filmmakers, Kleber Mendonça Filho is one of the most adept at portraying the relationships between people, their homes, and their communities. In this hybrid of history and memoir, he explores his hometown of Recife, Brazil through the lives (and afterlives) of its movie palaces. Many are now derelict, some are gone, but together they embody their city in miniature. One theater’s position next to a picturesque bridge, for instance, means it’s been in the backgrounds of countless photos shot on that bridge, creating a timeline of that neighborhood’s evolution. — DS The Other Profile , directed by Armel Hostiou How does a namesake shape identity? How does access to social media both exploit and empower individuals in the so-called Global South? When the French filmmaker discovers another “Armel Hostiou” via an active Facebook profile in the People’s Republic of Congo, he sets out to find the impostor in person, leading to a madcap survey of Kinshasa, the largest Francophone city in the world. A Gallic, often droll version of Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger , this provocative documentary challenges how we see our doubles in the digital age, especially one fraught with massive economic global inequalities. — Eileen G’Sell There Was, There Was Not , directed by Emily Mkrtichian Probing the fraught relationship between feminist solidarity and nationalist zeal, this debut documentary follows four ethnic Armenian women whose lives are riven by the Second Artsakh War. Mixing the fairy tales of her youth with the devastating reality of the region today, the Armenian-American director presents Artsakh as both a sun-swept “paradise” and a bastion of patriarchal control to which her diverse heroines refuse to succumb. A stirring tribute to a lost homeland, There Was... calls attention to the scourge of ethnic cleansing in corners of the world long overlooked by American media. — EGS Read our original review. Problemista , directed by Julio Torres Whimsical and irreverent, Torres’s directorial debut takes a fantastical approach to depicting the very real trials of immigration and creative work. To stay in New York, a young Salvadoran has less than a month to secure a visa sponsor, who comes in the flamboyant form of an embittered middle-aged art critic (Tilda Swinton). Narrated by Isabella Rossellini, the film visually scans as a ludic mashup of Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) — but with an undercurrent of class consciousness that feels all too relatable to anyone hustling to get by on a creative’s salary.— EGS Read our original review. “REFORM!” by Secret Base For years, Jon Bois has quietly been building a playbook for making data on a computer screen cinematically riveting. His series Pretty Good (2015–17), which looks at different odd and interesting cultural moments, had long been on hiatus. Its triumphant return came in the form of this three-part essay about the ridiculous history of the Reform Party, the last real attempt at creating a viable third political party in the United States, which quickly succumbed to petty infighting. It’s a chamber drama of political grievances and machinations, acted out mainly with charts. — DS Gasoline Rainbow , directed by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross Directors Bill and Turner Ross tag along with a group of teens on a postgrad road trip from Oregon down the Pacific Coast, and turn it into an epic journey. The brothers’ films often straddle a line between believability and unreality; every scenario reveals itself as carefully constructed, once you think about it. Did the kids really just happen onto a party on a ferry? Probably not. It doesn’t matter, though, because the emotions of the rambling conversations and heart-to-hearts feel completely genuine. It is, as the kids say, an incredible vibe. — DS Read our original review. Janet Planet , directed by Annie Baker Shot on grainy, intimate 16mm, this debut film is grounded in the spare but potent dialogue of its Pulitzer-winning playwright of a director, whose early ’90s Massachusetts upbringing serves as the bucolic backdrop. Adopting the perspective of an 11-year-old (Zoe Ziegler) who is as pessimistic and guarded as her hippie mother (Julianne Nicholson) is naive, Janet Planet offers a resolutely unsentimental depiction of their filial bond. A slow burn with a daring final act, the film reminds us that so much depends on shot composition, acting, and a brilliant script. — EGS Daughters , directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton Co-directed by a former journalist and the Chief Executive Officer of Girls for a Change, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering Black girls, Daughters may be the most heart-wrenching documentary of the year. Following four young girls anxiously awaiting the “Date with Dad” dance held at a Washington, DC prison, the film offers a layered account of their fathers’ preparation for the event, much of which resembles group therapy for men traumatized by their own troubled pasts. A tender portrait of families caught in the correctional system, this documentary reveals the extent to which mass incarceration perhaps punishes the innocent most of all. If “our daddies are our mirrors,” as the film posits, what does it mean if they are completely off-limits to those who need them most? — EGS Sugarcane , directed by Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat Unlike last year’s overhyped Killers of the Flower Moon , this disquieting investigative documentary puts native voices front and center. Prompted by the 2021 discovery of unmarked graves at a former Catholic “residential school” for Indigenous children, the filmmakers embark on a fact-finding mission that takes them from British Columbia to Vatican City. Brilliantly edited and sensitively shot, this exposé of institutional brutality and ensuing intergenerational trauma never reduces its native subjects to the status of passive victims. “Indigenous peoples are still dying from residential schools,” the film asserts. “And still living, despite them.” — EGS Read our interview with the filmmakers . Will & Harper , directed by Josh Greenbaum Partnering A-list celebrity Will Ferrell with writer Harper Steele, this charming film plays off the classic road trip genre but adds a twist in the form of Steele’s gender transition, which she began in 2022. We are taken along for the ride as the two explore their longtime friendship, navigating gender, fame, and the blue/red divide in the United States. The drama that ensues at a Texan steakhouse proves that trans people still have to navigate an intolerant world, in which there exist people with the best of intentions who just don’t get it. But the film also shows that some of those people eventually do, and that this country is often more tolerant than it can seem online. Touching, truly. — Hrag Vartanian Youth (Hard Times) and Youth (Homecoming) , directed by Wang Bing Wang Bing, one of the chief nonfiction chroniclers of China’s shifting capitalist fortunes, completed his trilogy about young migrant textile workers this year with these two features. Through a relentless use of extended footage of people doing the same repetitive work in sweatshops — if you think it’s hard to sit through, imagine what it’s like to do it — the film drives home the tedium of this labor. But this also makes the moments of comradery and familial love, like a return home for a wedding, all the more poignant. — DS Read our original review . Allo la France , directed by Floriane Devigne When the French director witnesses the gradual, then rapid, removal of public phone booths across her country, she sets out to find and document the last vestiges of a pre-digital era. With its mid-century color palette and stunning symmetrical shot composition, Allo La France may initially seem a Wes-Andersonian tribute to the endearing, yet obsolete, world of phone booths, but ultimately serves as a quiet polemic against the dangers of privatization and the dissolution of public services in France. You’ll never look at, or remember, a payphone the same way again. —EGS Scénarios , directed by Jean-Luc Godard It has been more than two years since Jean-Luc Godard’s death, but he continues to live on through new short film releases. Completed the day before he passed, Scénarios feels like Godard’s final thoughts embodied in film, dense with allusions and experimental free associations between different depictions of mortality, from Howard Hawks movies to social media war footage set in rapid montage. Like much of his work, it demands rigorous attention and thought, yet remains widely open to interpretation. To the very end, no one was doing it like him. — DS Black Glass , directed by Adam Piron Eadweard Muybridge is famous for his motion studies in the 1800s, which constitute some of the earliest approximations of moving images. He also accompanied the US Army during the Modoc War , staging photos of Indigenous aggressors for propaganda purposes. Setting these photographs against modern footage of the landscapes where they were shot, Adam Piron creates a brief but powerful intonation of how photographic images have been part of the colonizer’s war on indigeneity. People die, the film suggests, but the land and the memory endure, however warped. — DS American Muslims: A History Revealed These six short documentary films tell unlikely stories about being Muslim in the United States. Among the incredible stories they share is the unusual tale of the first mosque in North Dakota and the moving story of Muhammad Kahn, an immigrant from Afghanistan who traveled to the United States in 1861 and fought in the Union Army before sparring with the US government for the veteran pension he deserved. This series may shift some of your thinking about the history of diversity in this country — it’s longer, for instance, than you might think — and new revelations finally allow a fuller story to be told. Highly watchable. — HV Exhibiting Forgiveness , directed by Titus Kaphar “Relationships are hard. They’re hard, ” a mother tells her resentful son, who is estranged from his abusive father. Few films depict the depth and complexity of childhood trauma — or Black masculinity — more cogently and sensitively than this debut film from artist Titus Kaphar, whose lived experience serves as the backdrop. Both an indictment of the art world’s racial hypocrisies and a tribute to the tenets of forgiving on one’s own terms, Exhibiting is a work of art about the art of survival — and of healing — when neither necessarily serves the bottom line. — EGS “Silverback,” from the series Nature I wasn’t sure what to expect in this 43-minute documentary, but by the end, I was moved by the connection between filmmaker Vianet Djenguet and a protective 500-pound silverback gorilla in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, particularly the empathy the former showed toward the latter. Djenguet’s three-month journey, often surrounded by security forces, gives you a peek into the psychology of a great ape who has never been habituated to humans, and the distrust he has built after decades of mistreatment and familial tragedies. It was the first time a documentary made me consider the impact of generational trauma on apes. The film works, too, because Djenguet learns as much about his own desire to connect with an animal that isn’t as eager to do the same. — HV Dahomey , directed by Mati Diop In less than an hour, Mati Diop finds ways to approach the issue of artifact repatriation from a multitude of perspectives – including that of the artifacts themselves. Through voiceover, the documentary gives an inner life to a statue of a Dahomeyan king being given back to Benin by France. The statue’s anxieties about his return to his homeland poignantly crystallize ideas about cultural alienation and homecoming. — DS Read our report on the film here. Black Box Diaries , directed by Shiori Itô Editor’s Note: The following contains mentions of sexual assault. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org . Based on her memoir of the same name, Itō’s investigative documentary examines, in painful detail, the director’s sexual assault at the hands of television reporter Noriyuki Yamaguchi, only to witness her criminal case tossed out by police. In a country where only 4% of women report rape, Black Box Diaries reveals the extent to which the #MeToo movement in the United States both galvanized and overlooked victims in other countries and from other cultures. “I’m not an activist or a propagandist,” Itō vents to a loved one when facing national pushback. In this film, she achieves her own kind of justice in confronting the hypocrisy of Japanese officials head-on, precipitating actual legal changes. — EGS Read our interview with the filmmaker here . Leonardo da Vinci , directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon In classic PBS and Ken Burns style, this two-part, four-hour documentary tells the story of the original Renaissance man, who seemed to march through history with a sense of purpose that makes him continually relevant to this day. Combining interviews with experts and images of his art, Burns and team don’t demystify Leonardo so much as contribute to his mystique as a universal genius — though I never quite understood how likable and funny the Renaissance master was to his contemporaries until this film. This is a good primer for the novice, and kudos to the documentary team for not ignoring the artist’s sexuality, but instead including it in a very matter-of-fact way that helps normalize queerness in historical people, creating a fuller picture of their often wondrous lives. — HV Obsessed with Light , directed by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum Less in-depth biography of Loïe Fuller’s life than a chronicle of the dancer’s impact on the last 100-plus years of culture, this documentary heralds “La Loïe” as a singular agent of her own success, a woman as unapologetically brash as she was creatively ingenious. A lustrous tribute to the lesbian icon’s vision, Obsessed with Light juxtaposes archival footage with contemporary iterations Serpentine Dance , a genre she created. To see original footage of Fuller onstage, her whirring body a lambent flower, is to reconsider what makes dance — or any art form — “modern.” — EGS Read our original review. The Girl with the Needle , directed by Magnus von Horn With its stark chiaroscuro lighting and Michal Dymak’s haunting black-and-white cinematography, The Girl with the Needle exudes a shadowy aesthetic redolent of German Expressionism. Following one woman’s struggle to survive during the devastating aftermath of World War I, this visual tour de force pierces the dark, banal heart of misogyny in early 20th-century Denmark. Bracingly relevant to ongoing discussions of reproductive and bodily autonomy, this is a film best viewed with little knowledge of its true-crime basis. — EGS Last Week Tonight with John Oliver During a trying year, it was great to have John Oliver offering his highly researched and entertaining takes on a world gone awry. From Trump’s plans for mass deportation to Israeli settlements in the West Bank to hospice care in the United States, Oliver finds a way to combine his unique and hardcore nerdiness with his need to produce a highly watchable story that challenges the attention span of audiences normally deathscrolling on personal devices. I’m not sure the American mediascape has anyone like Oliver, who can discuss Indian or British elections with the same intensity as corn production, pig farming, or student loan debt, while still finding a way to go viral in the process. Oliver demonstrates that some are still committed to the political purpose of education, and the portion of the public that knows that journalism is key to keeping them informed. — HV We hope you enjoyed this article! Before you keep reading, please consider supporting Hyperallergic ’s journalism during a time when independent, critical reporting is increasingly scarce. 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