Oliver Anthony and the sorry state of Rolling Stone
The once-great magazine’s coverage of the viral country star is embarrassing
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Monday
Monday
Why didn’t William Friedkin get much credit when he was alive?
There’s more to the late director than The Exorcist and The French Connection
Thursday
The Real Housewives of the Picket Line
Reality TV stars have been Hollywood’s fallback option of late. During these writers’ and actors’ strikes, that could change
Tuesday
Paul Reubens lived life on his own terms
His strange talent was one that Hollywood could never quite handle
Monday
Cardi B is dangerous with a mic — literally
Throw something at the rapper and she will retaliate…
Barbenheimer, strikes and Hollywood’s uncertain tomorrow
The future of cinema is up for grabs
Wednesday
The dishonesty of Netflix’s Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate
Its conflation of small-‘c’ conservatism and fascism is not only morally dubious but historically dishonest
Tuesday
Allan’s big moment: discontinued doll’s price rises thanks to Barbie
The eBay value of Ken’s friend is skyrocketing
Elon Musk slams Barbie, echoing the right’s lamest pundits
Aren’t the joyless dullards meant to be on the left these days?
The Hollywood strikers have a Schrödinger’s Cat problem
Why streaming viewership figures are crucial to the residuals debate
Monday
Oppenheimer and the triumph of Christopher Nolan
The director has made a lot of people a lot of money, so he is allowed to do what he likes
Mick Jagger at eighty: the beginnings of a Rolling Stone
No other major rock star is as obviously a product of his time and place as the Stones frontman
Sunday
Japan deserves to see Oppenheimer
The country as a whole is far less bitter about World War Two than many Americans think it is
Oppenheimer’s passenger
Christopher Nolan and Cormac McCarthy’s fissile Westerns
Wednesday
Why What We Do in the Shadows works
A vampire sitcom that doesn’t suck
Monday
Arnold Schwarzenegger is back
With a new Netflix documentary and series, the actor is ubiquitous once again
Jane Clark Scharl delivers artful truths in Sonnez Les Matines
The play is, alas, unlikely to attract a large following in the theater
The brilliant, underappreciated work of Germaine Richier
Despite her institutional recognition in France, Richier is not as well-known outside her native country as she deserves to be
Inside the traditional art revolution
The cultural hegemony of contemporary abstract art is slowly beginning to crack
Tom Cruise must run to save the world
He runs because that is what he is there for, because it is who he is, because he is a creation meant always to be in motion