
Alissa Wilkinson
Former Senior Correspondent + Critic
Latest articles by Alissa Wilkinson


Tammy Faye Bakker’s complicated legacy gets another look in a new movie starring Jessica Chastain.


The women selling leggings on Facebook were the real prey, as the new Amazon series LuLaRich shows.


From ballet to poker, televangelists to Tony winners, here are the movies worth streaming or seeing on the big screen.


The new movie-musical Annette caps off a summer of strange films.


CODA is a big-hearted crowdpleaser about a teen, her dreams, and her family.


Respect understands the genre’s problems, but falls into them anyway.


Free Guy is about a man stuck in a fake world. Hollywood loves that metaphor.


The new documentary The Viewing Booth asks if images are losing their power.


From The Suicide Squad and Candyman to Cryptozoo and CODA.


Unpacking the new movie’s connections to Arthurian legends, myths of saints, and … Scorsese?