In which we award the most original, absurd, scrappy, and ingenious works that shaped our year in quarantine. | Continue reading
How did Orson Welles’s film become so firmly established at the top of the canon in the first place? | Continue reading
The documentarian discusses the unexpectedly moving episode of his HBO series. | Continue reading
“I think they perked up when I came up, because I didn’t ask the usual questions.” | Continue reading
One man’s journey to return Apple’s “gift.” | Continue reading
Lena the Plug talks celebrities joining the platform, making commissions, and more. | Continue reading
Darren Aronofsky’s 2000 movie is the work of artists who hadn’t yet been told what they could and couldn’t do. | Continue reading
After leaving Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen, the chef now has her own show — where she’s paid fairly for her fantastic creations. | Continue reading
Theater owners across the country explain how they’re going to survive 2020: “It’s a darker time now than when theaters were initially closed.” | Continue reading
Three revolutionary works still speak to us of doubt, inspiration, and grace. | Continue reading
From Bugs Bunny to Spike Spiegel to Miles Morales, retracing 128 years of an art form that continues to draw us all in. | Continue reading
The partnership is off to a rocky start. | Continue reading
“It kind of feels like a prison I’ve built myself.” | Continue reading
In his new novel Zero K, the 79-year-old has built a temple to house all his ghosts. | Continue reading
Taking stock of the premium network’s formidable catalogue. | Continue reading
The things you notice when you rewatch, rather than cancel, old sitcoms. | Continue reading
Nearly 100 million people watched at least two minutes of Extraction. In the past, we could scoff at such numbers. Now, it’s all we have. | Continue reading
Confessions from the writers, directors, and producers. | Continue reading
The streaming platform raised $1.75 billion and secured a roster of A-list talent, but it can’t get audiences to notice. | Continue reading
How a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the year’s most sublimely unsettling show. | Continue reading
To say that Morricone was a great soundtrack composer — or even the greatest of all soundtrack composers — doesn’t quite do him justice. | Continue reading
The streaming platform raised $1.75 billion and secured a roster of A-list talent, but it can’t get audiences to notice. | Continue reading
The streaming platform raised $1.75 billion and secured a roster of A-list talent, but it can’t get audiences to notice. | Continue reading
TV perfected the cop show, metastasized it, and then franchised it into ubiquity. How does that affect the way audiences think about police? | Continue reading
And what will a post-pandemic theater look like? | Continue reading
An excerpt from Caseen Gaines's We Don't Need Roads. | Continue reading
Conspiracy theories swirl as high-schoolers struggle with taking exams at home for the first time in history. | Continue reading
George Eliot’s em-dash — plus, T.S. Eliot’s ellipses ... (not to mention Vladimir Nabokov’s parentheses). | Continue reading
“Oh boy, is this great.” | Continue reading
Tina Fey, Mike Schur, and 35 more TV writers on what their characters would do in a pandemic. | Continue reading
Tina Fey, Mike Schur, and 35 more TV writers on what their characters would do in a pandemic. | Continue reading
The backstory behind “The Case of the Missing Hit.” | Continue reading
By shooting DIY webisodes at home, Jimmy Fallon and his late night rivals are more spontaneous and relatable than ever. | Continue reading
Boozy nights and high-stakes art trades with Inigo Philbrick. | Continue reading
Carmen, La Bohème, and La Traviata are all slated for next week. | Continue reading
The outbreak has forced many events to cancel. | Continue reading
Roberta Haynes is one of the few people still around who underwent Dr. Mortimer Hartman’s LSD therapy, which captivated Hollywood in the 1950s. | Continue reading
A comedian posted a fake, funny essay to Twitter. What happened next was out of his control. | Continue reading
The pernicious spread of garbage language. | Continue reading
A look into how Bong Joon Ho and his production team created the homes of the haves and the have-nots. | Continue reading
On of TV’s best anti-heroes gets a fitting farewell that stretches far beyond the concerns of one single, flawed equine male. | Continue reading
Emma Sullivan began filming her documentary one year before he murdered and dismembered journalist Kim Wall. | Continue reading
A Hidden Life tells the story of a conscientious objector to Hitler. If we didn’t know better, we’d say it’s the director’s most political film yet. | Continue reading
“I got some emails strongly telling me I should change my mind.” | Continue reading
The series casually and confidently reveals its final twist, destabilizing Mr. Robot’s reality without upending its emotional center. | Continue reading