Reviews
Here are the best TV shows, movies, books, comics, and music to read, watch, and listen to right now.
The four-episode miniseries, based on a bestselling memoir, tells the story of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman finding her own path.
The first wave of digital releases pushed due to the coronavirus are here.
“You go to sleep in one world and wake in another.”
It’s a short, sweet watch about two women in a potentially toxic relationship.
The new docuseries has everything: exotic cats, murder, mullets, embezzlement, and a lot of welcome distraction.
The festival award winner melds high-concept sci-fi with brutal horror and a metaphor for class inequality.
This video game is exactly what it sounds like. But it’s far more engaging than you might think it would be.
The new show adapts Celeste Ng’s 2017 novel into a ham-handed melodrama about race and motherhood.
The new book ends the saga begun 11 years ago with Wolf Hall.
These thoughtful nonfiction films that played at the True/False Film Festival challenge our notions of reality, truth, and fiction.
The self-styled provocative bloodbath is a masterclass in botched satire.
The new West Side Story is led by a brilliant cast. But its reinventions don’t always work.
Ben Affleck’s offscreen life weaves into his excellent performance.
Structured like a Dungeons & Dragons-style fantasy quest, Onward is gentle, charming, and lovable.
Elisabeth Moss is brilliant as a woman trying to escape her husband’s clutches.
Beasts of the Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin returns with an intriguing but muddled take on the old legend.
Brandon Taylor’s debut takes on the campus novel with devastating precision.
Amazon’s new series tries to be a tale of Jewish identity — but it doubles as torture porn for neo-Nazis.
In Something That May Shock and Discredit You, the author (who recently changed his name to Daniel M. Lavery) riffs elegantly on gender, theology, and pop culture.
The best thing about the newest version is its keen sense of Austen’s sweet sarcasm.
This spare, searing novel asks how we live at the end of the world, which is right now.
Clement Knox’s new book Seduction tracks our shifting sexual mores.
This French film about two women who fall in love in the 1770s is a beautiful romance and a heartbreaking love story.
Most of the films that took home trophies at the 2020 Academy Awards are available to watch right now.
Almost 300 years after the first woman played Hamlet, Ruth Negga takes on the melancholy Dane.
I watched To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before on a loop for a month. I don’t think I’ll do that with P.S. I Still Love You.
Alison Brie stars in and co-wrote the empathetic look at a woman with a family history of mental illness.
Netflix saved Locke & Key from endless development limbo — but sanitized it into bland mediocrity.
From con artists to truffle-hunting dogs, here’s the cream of the prestigious festival’s crop.
Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez remains on the outside of its story.
BoJack Horseman ends with a muted blend of hope and horror, as only it can.
Why the acclaimed feminist filmmaker decided to make a documentary on one of the world’s biggest pop stars.
This year’s unofficial festival theme is reality — and how we obscure it.
The documentary shows the hard, exhausting work of fighting for civil and human rights.
The documentary, part of the Obamas’ Netflix slate, shows that seeing how the world could be can bring about real change.
Kiley Reid’s debut novel is a witty and biting racial satire.
The new movie doesn’t “update” the novel. It does something much better.
Henry Cavill and a lot of nude mages can’t save The Witcher.
Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce star in a whimsical but thoughtful tale about Benedict, Francis, and God.
This movie is indescribable. Let’s try.