Reviews
Here are the best TV shows, movies, books, comics, and music to read, watch, and listen to right now.
Lightyear will makes lots of money, and sell even more toys.
A gothic album, soaring with gorgeous darkness.
Jurassic World Dominion is the latest nostalgic reboot that will make a billion dollars, no matter what critics say.
Batuman’s second novel is shaggy, strange, and sweet.
Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang star in this sun-splashed love letter to queer spaces, gay male friendship, and the Meat Rack.
The films that scandalized and enchanted audiences at the world’s most prestigious film festival — and how to watch them soon.
For the Pentagon, films like Top Gun: Maverick are more than just a movie.
The filmmaker’s new movie continues his penchant for ancient iconography and spoiled paradise.
In Emily St. John Mandel’s new book Sea of Tranquility, the apocalypse is ongoing. So is life.
That’s why it’s great.
Natasha Lyonne’s Nadia travels back in time in a futile attempt to undo intergenerational trauma.
The Fallout and Mass look at school shootings in a new way.
With Suffs and Paradise Square, this season’s new musicals are reexamining the history books.
After three years, “Donbass” is finally hitting American theaters. Its portrait of misinformation and institutional failure is all too timely.
The ambitious, kaleidoscopic follow-up to A Visit From the Goon Squad sticks the landing.
Marvel’s newest Disney+ series operates as a metaphor about mental illness.
Despite its many weaknesses, Bridgerton might be wobbling its way toward becoming a good show.
The action rom-com turns Channing Tatum into the damsel in distress.
Deep Water asks the deep moral question: Can a drone engineer be sexy?
Bad Vegan, Inventing Anna, The Dropout, and the real point of the flourishing genre.
Before he became an international symbol, he played a common man whose outrage over corruption elevated him to high office.
Julia May Jonas’s dreamy debut novel Vladimir arrives with its teeth out.
A tale of two moral universes.
The Batman realizes the character’s greatness in a classic noir detective story.
Films from Tantura to Descendant challenge the powerful. But it’s still up to us to witness the truth.
An anime romance between a heroine and a himbo was my original OTP.
The truest, purest feast of fools.
The most exciting nonfiction from this year’s Sundance.
We’re all trying to be the authors of our own stories.
Sometimes we get what we want, if there’s space to share.
The best and buzziest movies out of this year’s Sundance.
The author of A Little Life and To Paradise writes long, voluptuous books all about human pain.
The new Netflix drama’s web of allusions and alliterations are its key.
It was a boom year for nonfiction.
Eight hours with the lads from Liverpool in Peter Jackson’s new documentary.
Emily St. John Mandel’s beloved novel should be difficult to adapt for TV. The HBO Max version reinvents it.
How to watch the greatest films from a wild year.
The one scene that sums up a messily perfect season.
Don’t Look Up and Silent Night lean into our proximity to disaster. Too bad they’re preaching to the choir.
One of Sondheim’s most beloved shows appears on Broadway, now gender-swapped, just weeks after his death.