The year of Jennifer Coolidge
The White Lotus star is finally being recognized as a bona fide sex symbol
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Tuesday
Sunday
Is Taylor Swift doomed as a filmmaker?
Filmmaking has not been kind to those who have made their names through the three-or-four-minute song
Friday
Remembering Jean-Luc Godard
Godard’s work remains a vibrant pageant of cinematic possibilities
Could Avatar 2 flop at the box office?
Betting against a ‘visual masterpiece’
Wednesday
Violent Night is more than just Christmas carnage
It’s reflective and culminates with some surprisingly Christian-inspired imagery
Tuesday
Kirstie Alley, the woman left out in the cold
She remained witty and wise about the industry that had rewarded her and then all but ditched her
Thursday
An unapologetically Jewish Fiddler on the Roof returns to New York
The production balanced the conviction that forward is always best
Thank God: Netflix releases Harry and Meghan doc trailer
‘How on earth does this pair have anything left to say?’
Wednesday
Tár is more than a #MeToo story
The film’s gender politics reveal the long shadow of the European canon
The Menu serves up clever and tangy social commentary
It satirizes elite exotic experiences that come at the expense of the help
Tuesday
Is Glass Onion a victim of its own success?
The Knives Out sequel almost loses the plot
Monday
The Oirish Question
On the ‘stage Irishness’ of Martin McDonagh’s Banshees of Inisherin
Wednesday
‘Alice’s Restaurant’ and how the hippies blew it
Arlo Guthrie’s rambling, satirical anti-Vietnam ballad still plays every Thanksgiving
Thirty-five years of crying to Planes, Trains and Automobiles
I like to spend every Thanksgiving with John Candy
Monday
Murillo the masterful
The Spaniard’s painterly skill outshines his congenital weakness for schmaltz
The shock value of Lena Dunham
She was the low-culture Mary Tyler Moore
Why is there no great Thanksgiving movie?
The holiday lacks the magic of Christmas and already has too much drama
The return of Lindsay Lohan
Falling for Christmas looks bound to be tragicomic and artless pulp, but so what?
David Bowie is bigger than ever
His stature as rock music’s greatest iconoclast shows no sign of being threatened
Thursday
Taylor Swift is one of America’s great storytellers
She’s trained the Swifties to read between the lines
