Just because a TV show is thematically dark doesn’t mean it has to be incomprehensibly opaque, and yet Black Rabbit takes murkiness to a vexing extreme—a situation that also plagued ...
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse is one of the all-time best documentaries about filmmaking, charting Francis Ford Coppola‘s arduous efforts to craft a Vietnam War epic cast in a ...
Eleven years after Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson once again adapts Thomas Pynchon with One Battle After Another, a very loose reworking of the author’s Vineland that boasts many of ...
Admittedly, it’s difficult to top a season of television in which Reese Witherspoon orchestrated a January 6 cover-up and Jennifer Aniston fell for an Elon Musk stand-in and his phallic ...
What does a painting mean? What does friendship comprise? What does money buy us? How do we measure value? What should something cost?The still-striking thing about Yasmina Reza’s much-performed Tony-award ...
Consider A Big Bold Beautiful Journey a case of false advertising, as Kogonada’s romantic drama boasts a modest scale, moderate ambition, and—no matter its attractive leads—a studied, airless sort of ...
Gen V was a spin-off that knew what worked about its big brother, The Boys, while simultaneously exploiting a new milieu—college!—to uniquely explore its fictional universe. Unfortunately, Craig Rosenberg, Evan ...
Nostalgia is one hell of a drug, but let’s face it: Even the best highs start to lose their novelty after a while. When it feels like reboot and reunion ...
The early novels written by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman were mean, nasty, and bleak, none more so than The Long Walk, the first book the author wrote ...
The only thing in life that’s eternal is the desire to hold onto the present and to reclaim the past, and The History of Sound is, by its very nature, ...
