Beastie Boys were masters of cultural appropriation
Yet liberal New Yorkers just named an intersection after them
Culture
Sunday
Friday
The latest Jane Austen adaptation is dreadful
‘It’s often said that if you’re a five in London, you’re a ten in Bath’
Americans should be proud of their Poet Laureates
The British could learn something from these impressive missionaries of literature
Wednesday
The latest Thor isn’t ‘super gay’
It’s same old Marvel, dressing up the usual in brand new drag
Sunday
The unsolved mystery of Marilyn Monroe
Who was she? Films like Blonde cast us into a hall of mirrors
Thursday
The one-note wonder
The Museum of Modern Art is seeing red with Matisse
Playing the long game
Paul Cezanne is lighting fires with a new retrospective in Chicago
A concert begun in darkness
Remembering Rafael Schächter, a conductor imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp
How green is your Soylent?
A Seventies sci-fi thriller predicted dystopian eco-nightmare for 2022
Why did no one see The Northman?
The movie may be the last of its kind
Macbeth on Broadway: a Very Modern Scottish play
Daniel Craig whips through the Shakespeare tragedy in just over two hours
Friends creator falls victim to white guilt
Insane apologies in woke world
Bracing for the tension of Better Call Saul
The show is about to end with all the fervor we might have wished for
Friday
Ezra Miller needs help
A number of parents have taken out restraining orders against the actor
Tuesday
Kevin Spacey’s transatlantic fall from grace
The British legal system will decide his fate
Friday
In search of a credible Elvis movie
Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic is fun but too cartoonish to capture the legend
Tuesday
The Jurassic series is ready for its asteroid
It’s become an exercise in high-budget pointlessness
Sunday
The welcome return of The Kids in the Hall
Only the 90s could have given us something so bizarre and anarchic
Sunday
Stranger Things and the perils of nostalgia
Its version of the Eighties is oddly benign
Thursday
Hollywood has a school violence problem
So much for escapism
Wednesday
America has lost her Top Gun spirit
And no well-intentioned sequel can pretend otherwise
Thursday
Deep water Winslow
Winslow Homer has been put out to sea at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Diaries from Eighties New York
Duncan Hannah chronicles growing up and getting down in Eighties New York
Is Hans Zimmer a genius or a charlatan?
A Zimmer score is seldom less than a pleasure to listen to, as has been the case for decades
Throwing curveballs
Race and sex in Paradise Square and Take Me Out
The final word on the millennial generation
The Worst Person in the World’s ticking clock makes it both urgent and sad
Wednesday
Ricky Gervais, Netflix and clickbait controversy
Audiences are increasingly wise to knee-jerk manipulation
Friday
Zelensky is the star of the Cannes Festival
Cannes is back, bébé
Sunday
Evelyn Statsinger’s otherwordly art
The underappreciated artist is getting some well-deserved attention
