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


Ruben Ostlund doesn’t think we’re hypocrites.


On the Endgamification of everything.

Practical questions for creating community, according to Priya Parker.


How the director of an astonishing new documentary used old government footage to shed light on the present.


From The Fabelmans to Bardo to Armageddon Time, the filmmakers are making their memoirs.


The Whale is more than the movie where Brendan Fraser wears a fat suit.


The plot is based on a horrifying true story from 2011, but the resistance philosophy goes back to St. Augustine.


See a movie for the price of a coffee on National Cinema Day and contemplate the future of theaters.


Three Thousand Years of Longing caps an off-the-rails summer — one that might be the future.


Nathan Fielder, Leslie Jamison, Martin Buber, I, it, Thou, empathy, and, of course, television.