The Sweet East is the first film to capture 2020s America
Everyone can find their own niche now, but we have so little to talk about together
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Friday
Tuesday
Were we all wrong about Frasier?
Early reactions to the revised show have been generally positive
Wednesday
Remembering Charlton Heston on his 100th birthday
He was one of the finest screen actors of his generation and remains a symbol of American strength
Monday
Has Hollywood lost interest in making sci-fi movies for adults?
Audiences are not willing to pay their $12 to go and see something new and original
Thursday
Michael Gambon was so much more than Professor Dumbledore
He played countless iconic and legendary roles over the course of a sixty-year career on stage and screen
Let’s start another war to stop Antony Blinken singing
The secretary of state wants to change the world one song at a time
Wednesday
What does the end of the WGA strike really mean?
At first glance, this suggests that business as usual can resume, but the actors’ strike continues
Monday
Sex Education: it’s time class was dismissed
The suspicion remains that the wokery at the show’s heart is being celebrated rather than satirized
Monday
Meet the telemarketer-turned-filmmaker behind HBO’s Telemarketers
Sam Lipman-Stern exposes the entire industry in his frenetic, rip-roaring investigative documentary
Kenneth Branagh: the luckiest man in Hollywood?
He has been given break after break and has done his best with them
Wednesday
The lamentable rise of VFX in horror films
CGI is no substitute for glue, tape and ketchup
Once Upon a One More Time is pat, prepackaged feminism
Authorized by Spears herself, the show revamps the tale of Cinderella, weaving in Britney’s own repertoire of songs
The value — and worthlessness — of contemporary art
Should you spot a binder full of explanatory word salad at the entrance to an art exhibition, take it as a red flag
Is a Kevin Spacey comeback possible?
The actor is not going to disappear into the shadows quietly
Tuesday
Has the Taika Waititi backlash finally arrived?
Time for the very talented by increasingly one-note figure to take a sabbatical
Saturday
The Jimmy Fallon hit piece is flimsy
It’s viral because you don’t like him, not because its contents are all that bad
Friday
Plants meet Ebony G. Patterson’s sculptures at the New York Botanical Gardens
The Jamaican artist’s show continues to evolve as the plants do
Wednesday
Shane Gillis and the return of the dawgz
His work won out over all the obstacles the world threw at him
Tuesday
National Symphony Orchestra declared a ‘nut-free zone’
A visiting artist with an allergy means that peanuts, hazelnuts and nut oils are personae non grata
