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


Disney used to always be looking forward. These days, it increasingly only looks back.

The Vox staff reviewed all the finalists in each of five categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature.


The provocative Pedro the Lion frontman is the subject of the new documentary Strange Negotiations.


From con artists to cults, nonfiction cinema is rich right now.


The Hottest August director Brett Story wanted to “look at climate change by looking away from it.”


The Kingmaker director Lauren Greenfield talks about her revealing Imelda Marcos documentary.


Director Scott Z. Burns and former Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, whom Adam Driver plays in the film, talk about why it’s worth persevering when telling difficult stories.


If, for some reason, you have Watergate on your mind.


Disney’s long-awaited streaming service has arrived with a cavalcade of obvious and obscure content.


Playwright Will Arbery says he isn’t interested in “diagnosing” his characters.