|
Shirley LiThe Atlantic |
In adapting a sweeping and cerebral trilogy for TV, the new show forgets one of the original story’s biggest themes. This story contains mild...
The director of The Zone of Interest accepted his Oscar with a startlingly pointed anti-war speech. The Oscars are not built for somber appeals about...
The Holdovers star was grateful to win an Academy Award—and hopeful that it won’t be her last opportunity. You know you’ve delivered an Oscars...
FX’s epic new series is bringing unusual complexity to the beloved figure of the samurai. Most American audiences have probably never seen Hiroyuki...
The existential comedy lovingly skewers the absurdities of chasing the American dream. Alejandro, the protagonist of the film Problemista, is an...
The best installment of the Hong Kong–based drama connects the privileged protagonists with a society they inhabit at a distance. Expats, Amazon...
Swiss Army Man. Raw. Sasquatch Sunset. What is the appeal of films that send audiences running for the theater exit? Earlier this month, I watched...
Society of the Snow is an often-nightmarish—but wildly absorbing—viewing experience. Society of the Snow tells the real-life story of Uruguayan...
By paying tribute to the great shows of yesteryear, the ceremony argued for television as a shared culture. For all the glamorous stars and standing...
Hosting awards shows is a truly thankless job. Here are some things I saw while tuning in to last night’s Golden Globes that made me laugh harder...
Hollywood’s award shows will overlook these films—but you shouldn’t. Around this time every winter, I find myself talking about the same handful...
The movie musical is a tear-jerking and exultant epic that also works as a companion piece to the 1985 original. Steven Spielberg’s 1985 adaptation...
The Zone of Interest is an eerie and restrained study of the Holocaust that never shows a single frame of the atrocity. Jonathan Glazer’s new film,...
Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos talk sex, trust, and self-discovery. The protagonist of the new film Poor Things is no ordinary heroine. As played by...
Todd Haynes’s May December is a beautiful, terrible nesting doll of a film with a uniquely twisted core. In Todd Haynes’s new film, May December,...
Spoiler alert: They don’t die. People clad in green tracksuits stand nervously in a circle. They’re participating in a “test” on Squid Game:...
The series succeeded not because it had a clear political philosophy, but because it understood the power of entertainment above all. Hollywood was...
Nathan Fielder’s new series is weird and off-putting, yet intensely compelling. Watching something made by Nathan Fielder can be an act of...
The film is pleasurably lightweight, its story unburdened by the off-screen drama of the studio that made it. The Marvels arrives at a strange moment...
Fingernails, now on Apple TV , is a mischievous brainteaser that challenges our preconceived notions of commitment. In the world of the new movie...
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla illustrates how one of the most storied romances in American history produced a delicate, terrible loneliness. In...
The film turns the opioid crisis into a scammer story, not a criminal one. The opioid crisis is the deadliest drug epidemic in American history—and,...
Pain Hustlers tries to turn the epidemic into a snarky comedy. It doesn’t work. The opioid crisis is the deadliest drug epidemic in American...
Though it started a Hollywood bidding war, Fair Play is never as provocative as it wants to be. Hollywood has long been seduced by the world of high...
Kitty Green’s new movie, The Royal Hotel, follows two backpackers who do everything they can to avoid male aggression—and find it anyway. In The...
Many of Hollywood’s workers are watching the dual strike from the outside, and wondering how to make labor function for them. Not long after the...
The latest sequel to the one-time phenomenon is uncomfortable to watch, squandering whatever goodwill the series once had. In 2002, My Big Fat Greek...