A subtly mournful Crown lands in the post-Elizabeth era
Factual inaccuracies aside, the fifth season sits very well in our current time
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Wednesday
Monday
Elections are always better in the movies
Reality, alas, will always struggle to improve on fiction
Friday
Does Rihanna have a method to her madness?
The singer and entrepreneur has risked a lot just to give Johnny Depp the spotlight
The romcom’s ‘Ticket to Paradise’? Women
Why the new Clooney-Roberts flick succeeded where Bros failed
Thursday
Paul Newman was and wasn’t the nicest of men
His memoir suggests a kernel of decency that saw him through his dark nights of the soul
Wednesday
Ryan Murphy goes cruising
American Horror Story: New York City is Grindr as a thriller
Baldwin and Buckley clash on the New York stage
The play succeeds in affirming a certain anti-liberalism
Monday
Apple Music cynically exploits Kanye West by deplatforming him
Getting them tons of free media impressions. How convenient
Saturday
Kanye West just can’t shut up
Can anyone save the old Kanye from the new Kanye?
Friday
Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a grand and glorious folly
Scorned at the time, it’s today recognized as The Godfather of vampire movies
Sunday
Taylor Swift’s Midnights is a bright spot in a bland music industry
Kanye West 0, Swift 1
Dawn party
The Whitney Museum is digging back to the dawn of American Modernism
A chronicler of enormities
Leonard Baskin was not to everyone’s taste, and the feeling was mutual
The heart of The Rings of Power
Amazon’s Tolkien adaptation does justice to the aesthetics as well as the ethics of his world
Is this Tom Stoppard’s last act?
If Leopoldstadt does not convince the theatergoing public, then what will?
At eighty, Casablanca embodies Hollywood high style
The movie still resonates with viewers even to this day
Wednesday
The myopia of the ‘Sunflowers’ protesters
They could not be farther from the beauty of this earth
Halloween Ends succeeds because it’s barely a horror film
The third in the trilogy trades a high body count for a sophisticated reckoning with evil
Friday
Amsterdam explores friendship in a complicated world
The film focuses less on overbearing ideology than on living well
Thursday
Angela Lansbury was so much more than Murder, She Wrote
Her passing demands a reflection on a stunning career
