Reviews
Here are the best TV shows, movies, books, comics, and music to read, watch, and listen to right now.
Life, the universe, and everything, through both the telescope and the microscope.
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home is weird, funny, gross, and tender.
What it misses on story it makes up for in visual splendor.
“Regime Change” sounds like a radical book. It isn’t — and that’s telling.
The Duggars, Bill Gothard, and me.
The Flash is really about bad decisions.
The latest Miles Morales adventure somehow makes the multiverse not suck.
The HBO film adapts the FBI transcript from Reality Winner’s interrogation into a stunning thriller.
The buzziest movies we saw at the festival, from blockbusters to world cinema epics.
The author’s second novel zooms in on what an artist should be.
From Air to Tetris to BlackBerry, it’s time to make some deals
The last of James Gunn’s Marvel movies doesn’t get caught up in the multiverse.
Netflix’s The Diplomat asks what high-powered political games look like when they’re played by a woman with impostor syndrome.
The myths, mess, and creepy magic of Ari Aster’s latest nightmare.
The Mandalorian was the answer to all of Star Wars’ problems — until it embodied them.
Netflix and A24’s Beef is astounding, anti-ambient TV.
Her latest book, White Cat, Black Dog, is a collection of fairy tales that shimmer with unease.
Kelly Reichardt’s latest film turns the frustration of mundane distractions thwarting art into gentle comedy.
But Connor finally gets his moment in the spotlight.
Two new books, Jenny Odell’s Saving Time and Pooja Laksmin’s Real Self-Care, offer a framework for thinking about the world beyond capitalism.
14 years later, we’re all still trying to make it work.
Satisfyingly cerebral, Hidden Blade features a masterful Tony Leung and a breakout performance from Wang Yibo.
Return to Seoul is an exquisite meditation on finding yourself between worlds.
It’s silly. It’s sexy. It’s supply and demand.
From the sinister to the exuberant, the films you don’t want to miss.
Two blistering, beautiful new docs show the brutality of repressing our collective memories.
In his debut novel, Dan Kois vividly conjures the lost New York of 1991.
Greta Lee stars in an exquisite story of the doors we never opened and the lives we didn’t live.
The press is the villain but there are no heroes in Prince Harry’s new memoir.
Death, supermarkets, and an airborne toxic event.
It’s not about the 1920s at all.
Movie theaters are the most fun place to watch a comedy. What if that goes away?
The 8-episode first season forms an uneven, haunting adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic.
Finally, a big movie that looks like something.
From kid art criminals to feminist histories, these are our favorite books from the past year.
The three-episode first volume trods extremely familiar ground.
The TV adaptation, now on Hulu and FX, is too literary for its own good.
The movie “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” was recently declared No. 1 in the prestigious Sight and Sound poll. Go in as cold as possible.
The greatest films from a tumultuous year.
A pair of real-life murders bookend this series starring Kumail Nanjiani and Murray Bartlett.