Aubrey Plaza’s New Play Is a Baffling Disaster
Ethan Coen’s Let’s Love! wins the award for the most curiously titled play of the year thus far. The trio of one-act plays that comprise the piece (Atlantic Theater Company, ...
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‘Severance’ Star Jen Tullock Delivers Sensational One-Woman Show
The use of video and screens on stage has become a major bugbear for theater audiences. Often introduced for some jazziness in a show, they too often prove to be ...
‘Matlock’ With Kathy Bates Is So Good. Are You Watching?
(Warning: Spoilers ahead!)This cursed year is drawing to a close, but at least Kathy Bates’ charmingly formidable lawyer Madeline “Matty” Matlock is back on TV. As her character’s quest for ...
Will Arnett and Laura Dern Shine in Bradley Cooper’s New Movie
Following the big swings of his first two directorial efforts, A Star Is Born and Maestro, Bradley Cooper dials it back and loosens up with Is This Thing On?, an ...
The Funniest Satire of the Year Is Perfect for Our Cutthroat Times
No one directs a movie like Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden, Decision to Leave), and the South Korean auteur puts on a master class of lithe, silky, sumptuous storytelling with ...
Agatha Christie Is Rolling in Her Grave Over This Netflix Film
For her third straight streaming effort, Keira Knightley is a crusading journalist cosplaying as Miss Marple in The Woman in Cabin 10, a whodunnit whose mystery will be quickly solved ...
‘Boots’: Norman Lear’s Last Show Is About a Gay Marine in the ’90s
Late into Boots, two young Marine recruits joke about how, when you think about it, military culture is pretty damn gay. Spending all day surrounded by literal swinging d---s? Check. ...
Tim Robinson’s ‘The Chair Company’ Is the Year’s Most Bonkers Comedy
The Chair Company is, in many respects, the ultimate Tim Robinson vehicle: a collection of the star’s favorite fixations that invariably devolves into deranged, hostile madness. Although an eight-episode half-hour ...
Dakota Fanning’s New Horror Movie Is a Delicious Halloween Treat
Bryan Bertino is horror’s most unsung auteur—a director whose command of tone, pacing, and unnerving, suggestive visual storytelling is matched by few. With The Strangers, The Monster, and The Dark ...
‘Tron: Ares’ Is an Electric Feast of Music, Effects, and Jared Leto’s Hair
Tron has always been a style-over-substance franchise.Its narrative gobbledygook about digital realms—which has only grown more outdated and nonsensical since the initial 1982 film—was overshadowed by its arresting computerized imagery ...
