Oppenheimer’s latest film, The End, is a Golden Age, post-apocalyptic musical crying out from the depths of the earth. In the ...

The Act of Killing” director Joshua Oppenheimer reveals what drove him to infuse a postapocalyptic tale with song and dance ...

Nearly a decade ago, Joshua Oppenheimer accompanied a Central Asian oil tycoon on a shopping trip for a doomsday bunker. Oppenheimer, an acclaimed documentarian, wondered about the emotional ...

In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2024, Bilge Ebiri, K. Austin Collins, ...

Moving from documentary to the narrative format, Oppenheimer's urge to make a musical about the end of the world was rooted in his observational sensibilities. To hear Oppenheimer tell it ...

Oppenheimer’s latest film, The End, is a Golden Age, postapocalyptic musical crying out from the depths of the earth. In the late 2000s, the filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer trained his camera on a ...

(Well, this.) That director is Joshua Oppenheimer, whose brilliant pair of movies about the Indonesian genocide of the 1960s were both Oscar-nominated (and both times lost out to pop music ...

Director Joshua Oppenheimer, previously a documentarian who has chronicled dark acts of self-delusion, shifts to a postapocalyptic musical with similar themes.

"The End," by director Joshua Oppenheimer ("The Act of Killing," "The Look of Silence"), is a gloomy musical about perhaps the only six people left on Earth: an oilman and his trophy wife (Michael ...

Every year is full of good movies that remind us of "the power of storytelling." "The End" reminds us how dangerous that power can be.