Reviews
Here are the best TV shows, movies, books, comics, and music to read, watch, and listen to right now.
Where to start with the writer and director’s bizarre, bittersweet movies, including his latest: I’m Thinking of Ending Things.
The Showtime series is both fascinating and genuinely empowering. Its directors hope it will have an impact.
The Mulan remake jettisons everything great about Disney’s animated classic and delivers nothing new.
Christopher Nolan’s spy thriller looks like it was very hard to make. But it falls a little flat.
The new film Howard tells the story of how Little Mermaid lyricist Howard Ashman brought new life to Disney animation.
Junji Ito’s horror has been thoroughly memed — but his new anthology, Venus in the Blind Spot, is still terrifying.
The great ones have returned to save the world.
And this weekend’s best new releases.
The Lying Life of Adults is Elena Ferrante’s first novel since her doxxing. It’s terrific.
“Bro! Tell me we still know how to talk about kings!”
The aesthetics of the 2020 RNC are a disaster.
Maybe The Batman will show that retribution rewarded with material wealth isn’t that great.
On the strange, semi-fictional quality of everything that happens in 2020.
Tanner ’88 perfectly satirized the faux authenticity that candidates adopt to get elected.
The new horror series takes a bevy of fun pop culture tropes on a ride through Jim Crow America.
Boys State is just the latest movie to paint a picture of a changing system in a televised America.
I hear you saying, “Oh, great! Just what I need.” But trust me!
But the new book forgets that the most interesting part of Twilight was always Bella Swan.
Two new films — She Dies Tomorrow and Strasbourg 1518 — cut through our fantasies about life and loneliness.
Tamsyn Muir’s sequel to Gideon the Ninth threatens to break under the weight of its baroque mythology. It never quite does.
In Or What You Will, fantasy grand dame Jo Walton goes meta and frothy.
In six essays, Smith wrestles with quarantine, survivor’s guilt, and American exceptionalism.
It’s a good weekend to get a little creeped out.
Fear City takes everything at face value, and the results are tedious and vapid.
From freestyle rap to a Southern gothic novelist.
A cosmopolitan Mexico City socialite navigates the provincial horrors of an English manor in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel.
7 terrific new films, featuring a wide array of stars — from Tom Hanks and Charlize Theron to Andy Samberg and Walter Mercado.
Starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti, the movie broke records when it was acquired at Sundance for $17.5 million … and 69 cents.
It’s an empathetic portrait of a bar and the people who love it — with a twist.
The new series mostly avoids the macabre camp of its predecessor — with one major, skull-clutching exception.
The movie underlines what makes the musical radical.
It’s been a tough year. But the movies have been great.
From new Spike Lee and Judd Apatow movies to cult classic documentaries.
Da 5 Bloods, like all his movies, doesn’t let anyone off the hook.
In this new novel, one light-skinned twin marries a dark-skinned man. The other starts passing for white.
A creepy drama, a zombie fever dream, and other films worth seeing.
Elisabeth Moss stars in the eerie Shirley as a fictionalized version of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers — and it feels like a story Jackson would have written.
Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota Johnson play an iconic soul singer and her assistant in the frothy throwback comedy.
It’s a small film, but it has colossal ambitions.