A cultural summer in the city
New York is great in summer, but the art scene can sometimes be fleeting
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Tuesday
An Enemy of the People is hit-or-miss
The language itself — and the on-the-nose themes that Amy Herzog has unsubtly emphasized — feel like they could be sourced directly from Twitter/X
Sotheby’s latest gamble
The storied auction house is making a major change to its fee structure. What will it mean for the art world’s future?
Monday
Michael Douglas dazzles in Franklin
If only the rest of the show lived up to its lead performance
Tuesday
Curb Your Enthusiasm’s finale was a mission statement for the show
Don’t tune in expecting that Larry would somehow be redeemed
Monday
Monkey Man proves fighting the gods is a bloody affair
The movie is a raw, stylish, aggressive action flick with a pulsing rage beneath it
Saturday
Sugar offers sweet then rotten noir
Apple TV+’s latest is an incredible noir… until it tries to be more than that
Thursday
Ripley is not the edge-of-seat thriller you expect
If you don’t care for him, that’s because he doesn’t want you to
Monday
The Regime is bad eastern European pastiche
It was clearly inspired by satirical American and British shows about politics
Sunday
AI music is here and scarily easy to make
I made a Spectator album in minutes
Thursday
Peter Duchin makes us happy
He is the classiest of class acts
Friday
Road House is a triumph of awful filmmaking
There are hints of substance, but they go unexplored
Tuesday
Stormy depicts porn star heroism
The documentary is loaded with cameos from celebrities, commentary from liberal pundits… and scenes from Daniels’s striptease act
Sunday
The intriguing revival of the British gangster picture
It is unlikely that either Sexy Beast or The Gentlemen will have their legacies seriously challenged by the television series based on them
Reconsidering Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice
If the Thomas Pynchon novel adaptation has anything to say about the American dream, it is to mock its high-falutin’ nature
Finally, a version of Merrily We Roll Along that works
Director Maria Friedman has harnessed revelatory performances from her three leads to create a theatrical masterpiece
Friday
Masters of the Air is an old-fashioned TV masterpiece
It’s one of the best shows since Better Call Saul ended
Thursday
One-on-one with Broadway powerhouse Betsy Aidem
‘Things that upset you are fuel to take you through a story’
Monday
A Best Stunts Oscar is long overdue
After a century of amazing stunt filmmaking, stunt actors remain unsung
Oppenheimer and Poor Things clean up at the Oscars
Christopher Nolan, Robert Downey Jr. and Cillian Murphy all secured their first Academy Awards