The Kate Winslet-starring HBO miniseries ponders the double horror of peaking in high school and homicide.
Julien Baker’s brilliant Little Oblivions is about feeling doomed and looking for an escape.
The original Mortal Kombat is a cheesy, exotified, incoherent action movie mishmash. I love it so much.
Director Nikole Beckwith says there are “different ways to be the object of someone’s affection.”
The other seven episodes of this drama about the people who work at a strip club in Mississippi are pretty great too.
Raoul Peck’s four-part docuseries takes a scorching, brilliant ride through the history of white supremacy.
The director built his long, storied career atop a series of brilliant collaborations with people who made him better.
Our book critic recommends apocalyptic fiction and more.
They’re teens. They’re bounty hunters. They’re Teenage Bounty Hunters!
The fantastic comedy, now streaming in full on Hulu, never lost sight of how corporate America makes life hell for the people who work within it.
Why Peter Jackson’s masterpiece is still the one trilogy to rule them all, 20 years later.
The fantastic AppleTV+ show is my favorite TV drama going right now.
I need everyone to watch Veneno, a stunning HBO Max series about storytelling and survival.
Schitt’s Creek was the first comedy ever to sweep its Emmys category, and now it’s a Golden Globes winner too. Here’s how to watch it.
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Starring Frances McDormand, it’s an aching portrait of wandering people in a country that’s abandoned them.
The five-piece group might make you miss hearing a band you’ve never heard of in concert.
Warrior feels like if Peaky Blinders starred Bruce Lee and was set in 1870s Chinatown. It’s great.
The story of a Korean immigrant family is a layered and loving recollection of an American childhood.
The best fiction films we saw at Sundance, from the bizarre to the sublime.
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and many of its films, reflect life in a time of plague.
Activism, college admissions, and the high school to law enforcement pipeline all take center stage in terrific new nonfiction films from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
This riveting docuseries explores why police failed for years to catch Peter Sutcliffe.
The new PBS series has small-town shenanigans and neato animals.
Based on the bestselling novel, it’s a wry, blistering critique of inequality in India — and elsewhere.
“Every country has to build themselves up on propaganda.”
The book’s hot-button premise could only be handled by a trans novelist.
How a 20-something director made a stunning, uncanny film about The Villages.
The 10-episode miniseries tells the story of a teacher-student affair — and the trauma it causes.
Books that find joy in everyday life, to help you through the new year — or a bad breakup.
It’s a great choice for your first binge-watch of the year.
The Hard Tomorrow is about seeing dark times ahead and choosing to live.
Housebound’s surly protagonist is fed up with her house arrest from day one. It’s the perfect 2020 mood.
Murder, delusions of grandeur, dark rituals, brainwashing — these cults did it all.
A guide to animated TV series you’ll fall in love with, from the family-friendly classics to some adult-only picks.
It’s the holiday pick-me-up you might need right now.
Dylan Thomas’s prose poem will make your Zoom Christmas festive.
Your year-end viewing sorted, from Wonder Woman 1984 to Pixar’s latest to Small Axe.
Sometimes they’re just Christmas-adjacent.