The Whale is meant to hurt you
…and that’s a good thing
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Saturday
Friday
Ebony and ivories
The Piano Lesson puts its characters first
Titanic was the original White Lotus
Looking back at James Cameron’s one-dimensional criticism of the rich
Joyce Carol Oates intellectualizes Yellowstone
An interview with one of the show’s most vocal fans
Wednesday
Ancient Apocalypse and the end of history programs
It is not that hard to create a fascinating program on factual history, though clearly nonsense is more popular
Tuesday
The Whitney Houston biopic is a big, gay masterpiece
When Hollywood gets representation right
Friday
Confessions of a Sight and Sound voter
Reckoning with the subjectivity of ranking the greatest films ever
Tuesday
Babylon is a gloriously magnificent and bloated epic
Damien Chazelle produces his most wildly ambitious film to date
An ingloriously dumb adaptation
Almost Famous fails to make the jump from screen to stage
Edward Hopper’s America
The popular perception of the loneliness in the painter’s work could not be more wrong
Cleopatra still dazzles sixty years later
The film is, above all, an Elizabeth Taylor-worshipping vehicle
Monday
Why has Barbie been made?
The movie’s trailer looks every bit as awful as might have been anticipated
Friday
Avatar 2: a three-hour-plus video game cutscene
The Way of Water is a visually immersive and profoundly uninteresting film
Tuesday
Angelo Badalamenti, the maestro of mystery
Every producer knew that his work would always be peerless
The year of Jennifer Coolidge
The White Lotus star is finally being recognized as a bona fide sex symbol
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
