Bryce Dallas Howard’s throwback femininity
Old-fashioned women make the world go round
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Wednesday
The ongoing farce of Ezra Miller
Why does the actor still have such a hold on film executives?
What’s so wrong with Netflix’s Purple Hearts?
The movie offers near-perfect messaging for post-woke Netflix
Monday
Di another day
There’s a Princess Diana photography exhibition in a DC shopping mall. Why?
Bullet Train is a neon-washed delight
The fun thriller breaks up the summer’s lengthy movie drought
Sunday
Robert Icke’s smart pairing
The British director offers seven hours of Hamlet and Oresteia
Thursday
The Sandman is a confused disappointment
The problems begin in the first episode, a kind of demonic take on Downton Abbey
Friday
Why do films get canceled?
Batgirl is the latest movie to get the ax
Louis’s comebaC.K.
The canceled comedian has directed a new movie
Wednesday
Taylor Swift finally faces the woke mob
Her response to reports about her private jet sparks ire
Monday
Philip Guston in the padded room
After a controversial postponement, the Philip Guston retrospective has landed in Boston
Sinking into the pixels
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is an important film about the internet
Ukraine in black and white
Recalling the moral clarity of Lillian Hellman’s The North Star
Arcade Fire: the last of the art-rockers?
The band’s return is not just welcome but overdue
The underrated Kenny Dorham
On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, it’s well worth revisiting his remarkable career
SoHo’s downtown drawings
Cultural mavens shouldn’t miss out on a knockout exhibition curated by Emily King
The Princess is misanthropic TikTok schlock
With a toxic masculinity all its own
Thursday
Ron Howard: nobody’s favorite Hollywood director
He’s a careful pair of hands but little else
Wednesday
Where the Crawdads Sing reduces a rich novel to a love triangle
Gone are the book’s themes of Christianity and the poverty of marsh life
Sunday
Beastie Boys were masters of cultural appropriation
Yet liberal New Yorkers just named an intersection after them
