Rock ’n’ roll Dolly Parton’s political wake-up call
Her new song is more fire and brimstone than climate anthem
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Tuesday
What Succession gets wrong about politics
The show’s election night was gripping and realistic. Everything that follows is a hot mess
Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra girlbosses against historical fact
Watching it felt alarmingly like witnessing the death of scholarship
Sunday
Bringing back Stephen Sondheim and enduring a new Andrew Lloyd Webber
Bad Cinderella is a pumpkin, while Parade becomes an exercise in emotional torture porn
How Madonna turned pop culture Catholic
On the fortieth anniversary of her debut album, Madonna remains a good Catholic girl at heart
What makes Berthe Morisot’s nudes so unique?
She provides a new lens to look at Impressionism
What museums can learn from contemporary technology
The National Gallery of Art has quietly but steadily undergone a major culture shift
Friday
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a franchise murderer — and Indiana Jones is her next victim
She is bent on undermining every masculine hero
Does Johnny Depp have a future in Hollywood?
This most quixotic of performers doesn’t seem at all bothered by his fall from grace
Wednesday
Mission: Impossible makes the Daniel Craig Bond movies seem anemic and dull
The Craig films appear ‘made by people who are embarrassed to make a Bond film’
Tuesday
Is Taylor Swift the problem?
Her fans are mad that she’s dating ‘problematic’ 1975 singer Matty Healy
Monday
The election episode put the ‘suck’ in Succession
Never go full Newsroom …
Saturday
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is dull and emotionally hollow
The movie’s most authentic moment doesn’t involve Margaret at all. Judy Blume deserves better
So long, Orson Welles
His standing among the cognoscenti has taken a tumble over the past decade or so
Friday
Get in loser, we’re canceling Bluey
This animated dog has gone too far
Tuesday
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is a cry of pain
It feels less like a summer blockbuster than a director’s effort to exorcise some demons of his own
Monday
The National is the next great American rock band
So much more than America’s Radiohead
Friday
Why Beef is in a class of its own
The Netflix hit defies well-worn templates for shows about Asian Americans
Tuesday
White House Plumbers is a busted flush
HBO’s new Watergate show is caricature, not drama
Wednesday
Joaquin Phoenix, the anti-Hollywood star
He is the most eccentric and in-demand leading man of his time
