Why Beef is in a class of its own
The Netflix hit defies well-worn templates for shows about Asian Americans
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May 2, 2023
White House Plumbers is a busted flush
HBO’s new Watergate show is caricature, not drama
April 26, 2023
Joaquin Phoenix, the anti-Hollywood star
He is the most eccentric and in-demand leading man of his time
April 25, 2023
How to Blow Up a Pipeline is an ecoterrorist heist movie
This momentum is sometimes hamstrung by the film’s choppy narrative structure
April 20, 2023
Broadway brings back Bob Fosse’s Dancin’
Books and ArtsThe first revival of Dancin’ on Broadway is a treasure trove for Fosse fanatics
Noël Coward, the English playwright who loved all things American
Books and ArtsIn order to take over the globe, he had to succeed in the largest English-language market
Is the New York subway the city’s best gallery?
Books and ArtsBeneath the Big Apple’s streets, the MTA has amassed the largest collection of public art in the world
Why are there no paintings in Star Wars?
Books and ArtsThey are not talked about, reflected upon or even alluded to
Lana Del Rey’s new record: samey, stale, sterile
Books and ArtsDid You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd could have been better
The importance of going to the movies
Books and ArtsSomething happens when you watch a movie alone together, laughing, crying and fidgeting in unison
April 18, 2023
The Pope’s Exorcist isn’t scary enough
Father Amorth’s fascinating career deserves a better cinematic outing than this one
April 12, 2023
Cape Town, the epicenter for African arts
Wycliffe Mundopa’s art tells the story of Zimbabwe’s patriarchy
April 11, 2023
Dungeons and Dragons makes a comeback in theaters
For unpretentious fun and much-needed escapism, the new movie is just the ticket
April 7, 2023
The Criterion Collection gets with the times
Praised by Martin Scorsese, the Collection specializes in the restoration of classic cinema
April 6, 2023
Before Yellowstone there was The Big Valley
It paved the way for modern neo-Westerns
Vince McMahon is a great American survivor
The WWE mastermind is back with a vengeance — and a mustache
April 4, 2023
The new foul-mouthed Great Expectations is as bad as you’d expect
Amid the spanking and mud and tedium, its impact is all but lost
April 3, 2023
Wes Anderson movies have become meaningless
No one really wants to watch this make-cute anymore
April 1, 2023
Meet Leonardo Bigazzi: the man behind the art in Inside
Every work of art in the film is there for a reason
March 31, 2023
John Wick: Chapter 4 is the strongest installment yet
This is what action filmmaking should be
March 30, 2023
Jonathan Majors’s arrest is the ultimate headache for Marvel
The Ant-Man star was being groomed as the new face of the brand
March 29, 2023
The forgotten art of Hollywood backdrops
The Boca Raton Museum succeeds where the big beasts in LA and New York have failed
When Salvador Dalí met Alice Cooper
‘All of a sudden this troupe of five androgynous midgets in pink chiffon floated in’
March 28, 2023
A stripped back Doll’s House on Broadway
Books and ArtsThe difference between a divorce and a funeral seems lost on the director Jamie Lloyd
Listen: Kamala Harris’s Afrobeats playlist
Is the Veep trying to model herself after Obama?
March 25, 2023
Why were 2000s movies so hypersexual?
Books and ArtsAre we decent yet?
March 22, 2023
Is Quentin Tarantino finished as a filmmaker?
It may be heresy to say, but he seems to be running out of ideas
March 21, 2023
Drinking with Picasso
Books and ArtsTo mark the half-century since Picasso’s death, I invited two art experts to lunch at Els Quatre Gats
March 17, 2023
Chris Rock’s wonderful way to make a living
‘They’re the OGs of racism. They’re the Sugarhill Gang of racism.’
