Reviews
Here are the best TV shows, movies, books, comics, and music to read, watch, and listen to right now.
The Public’s all-Black staging of Merry Wives is a giddy triumph.
From The Suicide Squad and Candyman to Cryptozoo and CODA.
Unpacking the new movie’s connections to Arthurian legends, myths of saints, and … Scorsese?
It’s at its best when it’s at its weirdest.
Roadrunner grapples with the beloved chef’s legacy.
Why the timing of Marvel’s latest movie is so frustrating, even as its story gives Natasha a satisfying MCU send-off.
HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot is an expensive, tired retread.
Lost history comes to vibrant life in Questlove’s new documentary, and it’s a total blast to watch.
The new movie brings a viral tweetstorm to life with absurdist, madcap glee.
Vroom vroom.
Acidic and otherwise sloppy, Physical’s star is its saving grace.
Now streaming on Disney+, it’s a tale about accepting others — and yourself.
Season four was more accidentally timely than ever.
It’s a love letter to Black women and an indictment of publishing.
Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson’s Disney+ charm offensive works.
How indie artist and Crying in H Mart author Michelle Zauner wrote an album about joy and a memoir about loss.
The sequel to the 2018 hit is a fun, taut tease for an expanded universe.
Could this be any more pointless?
Cruella de Vil/ Cruella de Vil/ your movie is OK/ but Emma Stone kills
Moments in Love is a radically progressive departure for the series — held back by its too-rigid filmmaking.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit is now poised to be the movie of the summer.
Mare gets a huge break in the Katie Bailey case.
Netflix’s flashy, star-studded new drama is a big old dud.
A surprisingly apt post-pandemic horror film, St. Maud reminds us that hell is other people.
Amazon’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel turns a masterpiece into amazing television.
The Second Place is Cusk’s first novel since the breakaway success of her Outline trilogy.
Two critics (and YA fantasy fans) discuss Netflix’s messy, dour Shadow and Bone.
The merits, demerits, and awards chances of each film in a weird year at the Oscars.
Why we love this Best Picture nominee.
Director Nikole Beckwith says there are “different ways to be the object of someone’s affection.”
Great performances and fascinating technical choices power the riveting drama starring Riz Ahmed as a drummer who’s going deaf.
Our critics have wildly differing opinions about the movie. Will the Oscars?
The star’s HBO vanity docuseries series Wahl Street posits entrepreneurship as self-development.
Exploring David Fincher’s complicated movie about Hollywood and the making of Citizen Kane.
This terrific debut novel uses heists and alchemy to deconstruct immigrant ambition, striving, and sin.
Raoul Peck’s four-part docuseries takes a scorching, brilliant ride through the history of white supremacy.
The book features a whimsical train, two pet mongooses, and existential dread.
This Is a Robbery is more like a podcast with pictures, but not a very good one.
The Netflix drama also stars Stranger Things’ Caleb McLaughlin in a tale of city horsewrangling.