Reviews
Here are the best TV shows, movies, books, comics, and music to read, watch, and listen to right now.
You’ll want to delete your Facebook account.
“I Want to Know” left us with nothing new to know about the characters. By now, do we even want to?
Season four of Veronica Mars recaptures just enough of the original.
Whitehead’s follow-up to his Pulitzer-winning Underground Railroad exhumes the unmarked graves of a hellish Florida reform school.
The comedy about strangers in Alabama and conspiracy theories is currently in theaters.
The quiet, moving family drama is in theaters.
And in the latest episode, he really blew it.
Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista star in a tale of two guys in a ride share, learning some very creepy life lessons.
It’s a bloated retread without a reason.
E. Jean Carroll’s oeuvre shows us how dramatically the way we talk about women’s pain has changed.
Lulu Wang’s warm, funny film about a Chinese family grieving while they celebrate is one of the year’s outstanding dramas.
The show’s world is expanding, but it’s not getting any deeper. How much should that matter?
Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s first novel builds on the roots of her empathetic celebrity profiles.
The chilling tale from the director of Hereditary is in theaters.
The romping follow-up to Avengers: Endgame — and bridge into the next phase of the MCU — is now in theaters.
Mary Louise’s scheming tests tenuous loyalties, and everyone’s on edge.
Stranger Things 3 is both smarter and lazier than Stranger Things 2. But at least the Hawkins gang is still having wacky ’80s adventures!
How Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre ballet spotlights Jane’s love affair with herself.
Spider-Man’s latest outing is more effective as a rom-com than the emotional drama it tries to be.
Stephenson’s latest is a luxuriously expansive thought experiment — until the end.
In Ella Risbridger’s debut book, the prose is as delicious as the food.
The fourth (and final?) installment in the beloved Pixar series is currently in theaters.
The heartfelt tale about a Glasgow girl who wants to be a country star is currently in theaters.
The new Chucky is a smart-home appliance from hell, because even tech dystopia has a silly side.
It will haunt you.
It’s also a horror movie.
Big Little Lies’ second season starts dishing out consequences for last season’s betrayals.
Could the show be headed for a reinvention?
Bill Murray and Adam Driver lead an all-star cast in the zombie movie from Jim Jarmusch, which is currently in theaters.
It’s a lightweight comic tribute to Agatha Christie, and it kinda works.
It’s a love letter to female friendships and to New York City.
The series’ latest, and maybe last, lesson is about how love defines us.
Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth are great, and so are their gadgets and gizmos. But that’s really all there is.
The season premiere sees the past gunning for the five friends, whether they’re ready or not.
The workplace comedy starring Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling is now in theaters.
The stunning, elegiac debut drama is currently in theaters.
Part biography, part love letter, the movie is an elegy for a city lost to time.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix forgets what makes the X-Men compelling.
“Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too” says that empowerment is not always empowering.
Trump’s involvement in the case — and refusal to change his mind — is just a cipher for America.