The decline of the woke Marvel superhero movie
The formula has run out of gas — and audiences seem to have had enough
Arts Reviews
The good, bad and ugly in arts and exhbitions
Monday
Tuesday
Afrofuturism and the decline of our art museums
A new period room at the Met shows the spirit of the times
Monday
The latest Dune entertains and underwhelms
Dune reviewed
Mel Gibson defies the keyboard cancelers
The bête noire for liberals in Hollywood is back yet again
Friday
The PR campaign at the heart of the war on Netflix
Dave Chappelle’s critics aren’t asking for censorship. They want reparations
Monday
The art world is cashing in on anti-capitalism
Anti-capitalist artists like Barbara Kruger and Santiago Sierra are very skilled at making money from the capitalist machine
Vital Morgan
Lee Morgan was searching for a new musical path forward, following but not retreading the bebop era
Eternal Eastwood
Cry Macho reviewed
The spy’s the limit
No Time to Die reviewed
Wanted this Halloween: terror films, not horror
No more joyless Michael Myers slogs!
Thursday
Dave Chappelle’s last special is no masterpiece
The comic has developed the irritating habit of emphasizing how transgressive he is being
Wednesday
Succession is the wittiest, darkest show on TV
The narcissism of the self-absorbed rich is always fun to watch
Monday
The Rolling Stones cancel themselves
The group is canceling a ‘problematic’ hit, but that could sum up half their repertoire
Wednesday
Squid Game’s bloody attack on inequality and dehumanization
Netflix’s biggest hit ever startles us with our own powerlessness
Thursday
The Sting paradox
Just because he detected the modern tendency to confuse celebrity with profundity doesn’t mean he necessarily avoided it
Monday
The Crown will long reign o’er the Emmys
The show is a comforting reminder of when the British royal family was unassailable
Thursday
Shakespeare is getting trigger warnings
Shakespeare, after decades of being found to be Problematic, is now being reclaimed as the wokemeister-in-chief
The triumph of bedroom pop
From Joe Meek to Taylor Swift: a short history of lo-fi
Wednesday
Norm Macdonald’s comedic danger
As comedy becomes safer, he offered a sense of the unpredictable that will be sorely missed
Tuesday
Flagging energy
Jasper Johns, an art-world darling for decades, is getting a massive museum retrospective
