Celebrity Life
In C’mon C’mon, Mike Mills and Joaquin Phoenix Navigate the Puzzling Territory of Kid Logic
Movies about childless adults learning great life lessons from children are generally a terrible idea—unless they’re made by Mike Mills, whose semi-autobiographical reflections on his own upbringing resulted in the marvelous 20th Century Women, one of the finest films of 2016. In Mills’ C’mon C’mon, Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny, a New York City radio journalist…
Will Smith and a Dazzling Cast Tell the Story of Venus and Serena Williams in King Richard
It hardly mattered whether you cared about tennis or not: In the mid-to-late 1990s, when Venus and Serena Williams blazed onto the scene, nearly everyone loved them—and those who didn’t were people you didn’t want to know. These young women were distinctive on the tiresomely chalk-white tennis scene because they were Black, and they’d come…
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Is Excessively Eager To Please
The new installment is less about zapping ghoulies than it is about Family, Reconnection and Forgiveness. It feels fully parent-approved—and where’s the fun in that?
Enagwa – stunning bento boxes
Engawa Soho I often dream about Japan, sitting on a tatami floor, cross-legged on the floor with a wooden Japanese bento box spread across the table. Since I can’t travel there anytime…
If You Like Sex Education, You’ll Love Mindy Kaling’s The Sex Lives of College Girls
Like so many young women in real life but so few in current pop culture, when they get hurt, they get right back up again.
Netflix’s Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Misunderstands What Made the Original a Classic
'Cowboy Bebop' is a mood.
Thanh Binh – sincere Vietnamese
Thanh Binh Camden Town What’s the first thing you picture, when you think about Camden Town? You hear the street buzzing as soon as you walk along the main road…
With Belfast, Kenneth Branagh Affectionately Recalls a Childhood in a City Torn by Strife
Kenneth Branagh has clearly poured a great deal of love into this semiautobiographical story of a child growing up in late-1960s Northern Ireland
Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd’s The Shrink Next Door Is a Major Disappointment
It's rarely a good sign when characters based on real people strain believability
Showtime Survival Thriller Yellowjackets Is the Best New Show in Months
“Women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,” Lord of the Flies author William Golding once opined. “They are far superior and always have been. But one thing you can’t do with them is take a bunch of them and boil them down, so to speak, into a set of little girls who…
An Elegy for Dickinson, the Weirdest, Most Wonderful Show on Apple TV+
The anachronisms aren’t an empty gimmick. They recontextualize the poet and her work, scribbling over those stiff black-and-white portraits to reveal a truly colorful character.
Amanda Seyfried Is Heartbreaking in A Mouthful of Air, a Harrowing Story About Postpartum Depression
The movies that are hardest to watch for emotional or personal reasons—those that walk right up to anguish and look it straight in the eye—are also the ones that are almost impossible to get made. It’s a small miracle that writer-director Amy Koppelman’s A Mouthful of Air—which Koppelman adapted from her novel of the same…