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How William Shatner Turned a Flight of Fancy Into a Lyrical Pitch For the Planet
By Susanna Schrobsdorff
"Succession" According to Corporate Lawyers
By Andrew R. Chow
You
Season 3 Is the Best Installment Yet—and a Brilliant Send-Up of Suburbia
By Judy Berman
Netflix Employee Fired in Wake of Chapelle Controversy
By Associated Press
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Why Kyle Richards Thinks She's the Michael Myers of
Real Housewives
The longtime Housewife on returning to the 'Halloween' franchise and the drama in Beverly Hills
By Cady Lang
October 15, 2021
‘We Need To Be in the Room.’
West Side Story
’s Rachel Zegler and Ariana DeBose on Latino Representation in Film
West Side Story became an instant classic upon its release in 1961. The adaptation of the 1957 Romeo and Juliet-inspired stage musical, which starred Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as star-crossed lovers Maria and Tony,...
By Lola Ogunnaike
October 15, 2021
Bergman Island
Is the Rare Movie About Writers Trying To Write That Really Works
The always perceptive Mia Hansen-Løve finds a way to make this drama starring Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth more stimulating than it might first appear
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 15, 2021
The True Story Behind
The Last Duel
—and History’s Attempt to Erase It
The new historical drama starring Jodie Comer, Matt Damon and Adam Driver tells the story of Marguerite de Carrouges. What happened after the events of the film is just as fascinating
By John-Paul Heil
October 15, 2021
Breaking Down Adele's First New Music in 6 Years
Here's what to know about 'Easy on Me,' and what it tells us about her forthcoming album, '30'
By Eloise Barry
October 14, 2021
Halloween Kills
Sags Under the Weight of Its Own Mythology
There’s nothing creepily suggestive about Halloween Kills. Everything it amounts to is right there on its shallow, pitted surface
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 14, 2021
David Chang and Priya Krishna Want You to Get Over Recipes
When chef, Momofuku restaurateur and irreverent media personality David Chang approached food journalist Priya Krishna with the idea to create a cookbook with a major twist—the book would have no recipes—she was deeply skeptical. It...
By Lucy Feldman
October 14, 2021
Hamilton
Actor Accuses the Production of Transgender Bias
Suni Reid says their contract wasn’t renewed after they requested a gender-neutral dressing room
By Erin Mulvaney / Bloomberg
October 13, 2021
Rina Sawayama Is Fighting for Inclusion, One Song at a Time
Rina Sawayama calls her favorite songs her “problem childs.” They’re the Japanese British singer-songwriter’s deeply personal tracks that record labels are wont to reject. Take 2019’s “STFU!,” which rages against the racism Sawayama, 31, often...
By Kat Moon
October 13, 2021
Elizabeth Strout Knows We Can’t Escape the Past
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout often finds inspiration in the worlds she has already built and explored. In 2019, she brought readers back to Crosby, Maine with a set of interlinked stories centered around prickly...
By Annabel Gutterman
October 13, 2021
Suddenly, Everyone We See on TV Is Very Rich or Very Poor. What Happened?
There’s something ominous about the prospect of the vast majority of the population—everyone who lives above the poverty line but will never own an aircraft—disappearing from our screens. Where have TV’s middle classes gone?
By Judy Berman
October 13, 2021
Breaking Down the Controversy Around Dave Chappelle's Netflix Special
The Closer
In the wake of criticism that Chappelle's latest special is offensive and anti-trans, Netflix is standing by the comedian in the name of 'creative freedom'
By Andrew R. Chow
October 12, 2021
Sally Rooney Explains Her Position Amid Israel Boycott Row
The Irish author issued a statement explaining her decision to turn down a bid by an Israeli publisher to translate her new novel into Hebrew
By Eloise Barry
October 12, 2021
The Only
Succession
Recap You Need Before Season 3 Starts
Season 3 picks up with the fallout from a Kendall Roy bombshell. Here’s where the major characters stand going into a new season of corporate warfare.
By Andrew R. Chow
October 12, 2021
How John le Carré's 'Silverview' Fits Into His Legacy
When John le Carré died last December, his obituarists struck a common theme: here was a master spy novelist who, despite selling millions of books and having his work adapted for television and film, never...
By Dan Stewart
October 12, 2021
Netflix Defends Dave Chappelle's Anti-Trans Remarks
Netflix's co-CEO Ted Sarandos talked about "artistic freedom" and "entertaining people" as he backed the comedian
By Mary Biekert / Bloomberg
October 11, 2021
What Happened, Brittany Murphy?
, Britney Spears and the Gendered Perils of Child Stardom
Taken together with everything we’ve learned about the other Britney these past several months, this two-part HBO Max documentary raises questions about the lifelong perils of early fame, for women in particular
By Judy Berman
October 11, 2021
The Promise of Timothée Chalamet
The “Dune” actor doesn’t always reveal much, but what he does is intentional.
By Sam Lansky
October 11, 2021
Where Does James Bond Go From Here?
Now that Craig has put his Bond to bed, the franchise has an opportunity to signal to the world that it is rethinking this character, dragging him into the modern era if it must
By Eliana Dockterman
October 8, 2021
Meg Cabot Won’t Give Up on Happy Endings
The drinking game goes like this: every time you mention COVID-19, take a sip. It’s six minutes into my conversation with Meg Cabot when she makes the rules. We’re sharing margaritas over Zoom to discuss...
By Annabel Gutterman
October 7, 2021
Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah Awarded Nobel Literature Prize
Gurnah is the author of 10 novels, including “Paradise,” which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994.
By Associated Press
October 7, 2021
The Harder They Fall
Fails to Make Enough Room for Each Star Among Its Stellar Cast
The rare all-Black Western looks stylish and boasts an incredible cast, but in working so hard to entertain, it can’t quite keep the story going
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 6, 2021
Podcast 'Loud' Explores Reggaeton's Political Roots
Over the past few months, the Spotify podcast "Loud" been revealing the aspects of the genre’s history too often overlooked: its working class roots, its anti-government impulses, its tenuous relationship with major labels.
By Andrew R. Chow
October 6, 2021
Jung Ho-yeon on
Squid Game
's Runaway Success
The first-time actor on being cast for the hit Netflix show, relating to her character Sae-byeok and where she hopes her career goes next
October 6, 2021
Hollywood Film Workers Have Voted To Go on Strike
“A few times a week, you’re facing the issue of if you’re going to fall asleep and die driving home or not,” says film worker Paul Rodriguez
By Andrew R. Chow
October 4, 2021
Stanley Tucci: How Julia Child Changed My Life
I remember my college acting teacher George Morrison telling us that audiences love to watch people eating, drinking or smoking on stage and screen. This always stuck with me. As usual, he was more than...
By Stanley Tucci
October 4, 2021
How
Seinfeld
Became One of TV’s Great Moneymakers
Netflix paid more than $500 million for the streaming rights, which begin Oct. 1
By Andrew R. Chow
October 1, 2021
"'Free At Last?' Please. Who Is Free?" Choreographer Bill T. Jones Reflects on a Half Century of Creative Work
Bill T. Jones, 69, is a choreographer, MacArthur Genius Fellowship Award winner, two-time Tony award winner, author and cofounder of the Bill T. Jones /Arnie Zane Dance Company. He's performing with his own company for...
By Belinda Luscombe
October 1, 2021
The 8 New Books You Should Read in October
The best new books arriving this month dive deep into a range of topics, from a wrenching portrait of homelessness and poverty in America to the dissection of a marriage and its eventual unraveling. October...
By Annabel Gutterman
October 1, 2021
Titane
Strives to Shock, But It's Running on Empty
There’s a fine line between movies that are genuinely original and those that feel deliberately orchestrated to shock and repel us in a winking, self-congratulatory way. French filmmaker Julia Ducournau’s alleged film scandale, Titane, in...
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 1, 2021
Is Venom in
Spider-Man: No Way Home
? The
Venom 2
End-Credits Scene Offers a Hint
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Venom: Let There Be Carnage The end-credits scene for Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a bit more complicated than your average superhero movie stinger. It hints that the anti-hero Venom...
By Eliana Dockterman
October 1, 2021
Beck Bennett On Leaving
Saturday Night Live
And His 5 Favorite Sketches
Bennett, a straight man and raging idiot alike on Saturday Night for eight seasons, reminisces about his favorite skits to write and perform
By Andrew R. Chow
September 30, 2021
The Problem With Jon Stewart
Could Be Great, If It Ever Catches Up to the Present
“I remember your march,” a guest says, referring to Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s jokey Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, held on the National Mall in 2010. “I think it was against insanity.” Stewart: “Yeah, we won.”
By Judy Berman
September 30, 2021
How
Big Brother
Finally Got Its First Black Winner After More Than 20 Years on the Air
After 23 seasons and more than 20 years, the long-running CBS reality competition show has its first Black winner ever, Xavier Prather
By Mariah Espada
September 30, 2021
Just Try to Look Away From Jake Gyllenhaal’s Gripping Performance in
The Guilty
There are some actors so intense, their nerve endings sizzling so close to the surface, that they can make you want to look away. That’s Jake Gyllenhaal, as a disgraced Los Angeles police detective demoted...
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 30, 2021
I Left Poverty After Writing 'Maid.' But Poverty Never Left Me
I signed my first book contract without paying much attention to what it said. I didn’t know at the time that the book would be a best seller or that it would one day inspire...
By Stephanie Land
September 30, 2021
The 5 Best New TV Shows Our Critic Watched in September 2021
From Mike Flanagan's annual horror show to a hit Korean thriller
By Judy Berman
September 30, 2021
Jamie Spears Suspended From Britney Spears' Conservatorship Amid New Allegations of Abuse
John Zabel, an accountant, will temporarily replace Jamie in the role of conservator of Britney's estate
By Megan McCluskey
September 29, 2021
R. Kelly Has Finally Been Silenced. Let's Keep It That Way
In the summer of 2017, at a neighborhood Atlanta coffee house, the #MuteRKelly movement was born. There, I met Oronike Odeleye, the woman who would later become my partner-in-mute. She, too, was heartsick over the...
By Kenyette Tisha Barnes
September 29, 2021
The Overlapping Worlds of Author Amor Towles
Amor Towles had never actually been beneath the vaulted ceiling of an Adirondack lake house when he described the one in his 2011 debut, the best-selling Rules of Civility. He could only imagine the appeal...
By Karl Vick/Garrison, N.Y.
September 29, 2021
What We Learned from the New Britney Spears Documentaries
From secret surveillance to infiltrators of the #FreeBritney movement
By Megan McCluskey
September 29, 2021
Jasper Johns: "Dying While on Assignment Doesn’t Seem Like a Bad Idea"
Jasper Johns, possibly America's most famous living artist and still plying his trade at 91, launches two retrospectives on Sept. 29; one at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and the...
By Belinda Luscombe
September 29, 2021
No Time to Die
Is an Imperfect Movie. But It’s a Perfect Finale for the Best James Bond Ever
Craig's fifth and final movie as James Bond has its flaws, but it's still a fitting send-off for the greatest Bond
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 28, 2021
Three New Britney Spears Documentaries Tell a Chilling Tale About the Bystander Effect
For years, it seemed that no one knew what was going on with Britney Spears. In fact, many people knew, but nobody managed to stop it
By Judy Berman
September 28, 2021
Tracy K. Smith on 'Such Color', Joy in Poetry and Inquiry
"Poetry can reveal to us what we know, and what we need to know in the moment"
By Cady Lang
September 28, 2021
Netflix's
Maid
Is an Empathetic Portrait of Poverty That Dispels the Myth of Bootstrapping
'Maid' demonstrates how the families our society refuses to help can get trapped in cycles of poverty and abuse.
By Judy Berman
September 27, 2021
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