The ongoing farce of Ezra Miller
Why does the actor still have such a hold on film executives?
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What’s so wrong with Netflix’s Purple Hearts?
The movie offers near-perfect messaging for post-woke Netflix
August 15, 2022
Di another day
There’s a Princess Diana photography exhibition in a DC shopping mall. Why?
Bullet Train is a neon-washed delight
The fun thriller breaks up the summer’s lengthy movie drought
August 14, 2022
Robert Icke’s smart pairing
The British director offers seven hours of Hamlet and Oresteia
August 11, 2022
The Sandman is a confused disappointment
The problems begin in the first episode, a kind of demonic take on Downton Abbey
August 5, 2022
Why do films get canceled?
Batgirl is the latest movie to get the ax
Louis’s comebaC.K.
The canceled comedian has directed a new movie
August 3, 2022
Taylor Swift finally faces the woke mob
Her response to reports about her private jet sparks ire
August 1, 2022
Philip Guston in the padded room
Books and ArtsAfter a controversial postponement, the Philip Guston retrospective has landed in Boston
Sinking into the pixels
Books and ArtsWe’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an important film about the internet
Ukraine in black and white
Books and ArtsRecalling the moral clarity of Lillian Hellman’s The North Star
Arcade Fire: the last of the art-rockers?
Books and ArtsThe band’s return is not just welcome but overdue
The underrated Kenny Dorham
Books and ArtsOn the fiftieth anniversary of his death, it’s well worth revisiting his remarkable career
SoHo’s downtown drawings
Books and ArtsCultural mavens shouldn’t miss out on a knockout exhibition curated by Emily King
The Princess is misanthropic TikTok schlock
With a toxic masculinity all its own
July 28, 2022
Ron Howard: nobody’s favorite Hollywood director
He’s a careful pair of hands but little else
July 27, 2022
Where the Crawdads Sing reduces a rich novel to a love triangle
Gone are the book’s themes of Christianity and the poverty of marsh life
July 24, 2022
Beastie Boys were masters of cultural appropriation
Yet liberal New Yorkers just named an intersection after them
July 15, 2022
The latest Jane Austen adaptation is dreadful
‘It’s often said that if you’re a five in London, you’re a ten in Bath’
Americans should be proud of their Poet Laureates
The British could learn something from these impressive missionaries of literature
July 13, 2022
The latest Thor isn’t ‘super gay’
It’s same old Marvel, dressing up the usual in brand new drag
July 10, 2022
The unsolved mystery of Marilyn Monroe
Who was she? Films like Blonde cast us into a hall of mirrors
July 7, 2022
The one-note wonder
Books and ArtsThe Museum of Modern Art is seeing red with Matisse
Playing the long game
Books and ArtsPaul Cezanne is lighting fires with a new retrospective in Chicago
A concert begun in darkness
Books and ArtsRemembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp
How green is your Soylent?
Books and ArtsA Seventies sci-fi thriller predicted dystopian eco-nightmare for 2022
Why did no one see The Northman?
Books and ArtsThe movie may be the last of its kind
Macbeth on Broadway: a Very Modern Scottish play
Books and ArtsDaniel Craig whips through the Shakespeare tragedy in just over two hours