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Adam NaymanThe Nation |
Thirty years ago, on a not very special episode of Friends (“The One With Frank Jr.,” for the record) Ross and Rachel swapped “Celebrity...
The alt-comedy-to-auteur-pipeline keeps pumping away: Jordan Peele, Zach Cregger, Bo Burnham, and now John Early. The 38-year-old stand-up and...
The title of Giuliano da Empoli’s 2022 novel, The Wizard of the Kremlin, knowingly evokes vividly Technicolored Hollywood fantasies: There’s no...
Art, it has been said, is never finished, only abandoned. Steven Soderbergh’s new film, The Christophers, works around the edges of this idea. Its...
Films don’t come much more self-consciously provocative than Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama. It’s a cautionary tale...
The In Memoriam segment of this year’s Academy Award ceremonies lasted for 15 minutes. On a night when several winners’ speeches were cut...