What’s up with Jim Carrey?
After showing the world how interesting an actor he can be, he has retreated deep into an unchallenging comfort zone
Hollywood
Sunday
Friday
You’re wrong: James Gunn’s Superman looks great
A lot of the trailer does look visually outstanding
Thursday
Karolyn Grimes looks back on her role as Zuzu in It’s a Wonderful Life
Life wasn’t always wonderful for her, but she has a gripping Hollywood tale to tell
Tuesday
This feels like an interim year for the Golden Globes
A quirky throat-clearer before something more straightforwardly commercial happens next year
Thursday
Drea de Matteo’s Italian-American Christmas
We invite everybody over that doesn’t have a place to go
Memories of David Niven
I recall nothing of our lunch conversation, which has evaporated after fifty years. But I do have a clear memory of the icon of cinema
Wednesday
The winners and losers of the 2024 election
The sheer number of outside individuals, movements and institutions involved in the GOP’s sweeping night is astounding
Thursday
Michael Richards’s memoir is heavier on introspection than laughs
Entrances and Exits shows the Seinfeld actor’s clever, energetic, dissatisfied, self-critical mind at work
Monday
The decline of Tim Burton
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a dismally confused hotchpotch that aims for a curious mixture of comedy
Wednesday
Megalopolis and the strange art of negative marketing
Marketeers have made up bad reviews for major works and used them to promote a new film
Wednesday
Vince Vaughn on why Hollywood doesn’t make comedies
Plus: Trans Miss Maryland gets a disappointing finish
Monday
Glen Powell is your new favorite movie star
Twisters represents his latest assault on the box office and America’s affections alike
Thursday
How long has Hollywood been out of ideas?
What’s changed in recent years isn’t the instinct to take safe bets on already popular content — it’s that those bets are no longer paying off
Monday
What does the future hold for Alec Baldwin?
He is now a free man and able to resume a career that has undergone some spectacular highs and lows over the past few decades
Friday
RIP Donald Sutherland, a Hollywood master
He was an actor who, even in the weakest films he appeared in, brought class and dignity
Tuesday
Trump’s crush on Debra Messing
‘She came up to me with her beautiful red hair’
Monday
Yes, Will Smith is still a movie star
Summer blockbusters in Hollywood have hope again, as does the career of the man once known as Big Willie Style
Friday
The Baldwins reality show announced ahead of manslaughter trial
The lawyer of the cinematographer he fatally shot referred to the show as ‘calculated and cynical’
Tuesday
Why Ted Sarandos — and his son — should be disciplined
They think watching Lawrence of Arabia on an iPhone is acceptable
Wednesday
The best and worst of the 2024 Met Gala
Most of the fashion was yawn fuel
