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HBO Game of Thrones: A Wolf in Wolf's Clothing
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Stormborn,” the second episode of the seventh season.
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Amazon Studios Landline: A Melancholy '90s Romantic Dramedy
Gillian Robespierre’s follow-up to the 2014 hit Obvious Child retains its star Jenny Slate, this time putting her at the center of a dysfunctional family.
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EuropaCorp / STX Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Is a One-of-a-Kind Space Odyssey
Luc Besson’s new sci-fi epic is a visual sensation that deserves to be seen on the biggest screen possible.
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Columbia / Gaumont How The Fifth Element Subverted Sci-Fi Movies
Twenty years ago, Luc Besson’s visually stunning film hinged its story not on action or violence, but on love.
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Disney A Wrinkle in Time Defies Disney’s Sequel-Filled Future
Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s book is one of the studio’s only upcoming movies that’s not a follow-up or a remake.
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Helen Sloan / HBO Game of Thrones Gears Up for the Wars Still to Come
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Dragonstone,” the first episode of the seventh season.
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HBO How Will the Game of Thrones Be Won?
As the show returns for its seventh, penultimate season, what will become of Westeros?
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Netflix A Shake-Up for the 2017 Emmy Nominations
With old favorites like Downton Abbey and Game of Thrones out of the picture, this year’s TV awards could get interesting.
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Roadside Attractions Lady Macbeth Is a Brilliant, Macabre Period Drama
William Oldroyd’s debut film, based on a Russian novel, is a surprising tale of murder and infidelity in rural Victorian England.
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Fox War for the Planet of the Apes Is an Epic Slog
The third entry in this revamped series is a technical accomplishment, but a storytelling drag.
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Bluehole Studio The Apocalyptic Appeal of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
The online multiplayer video game simulates a free-for-all deathmatch between 100 participants—and it’s selling faster than Minecraft.
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Warner Bros. Why Hollywood Should Pay Attention to Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan’s war epic will be rolled out nationwide in 70-millimeter projection, which could be an intriguing answer to audiences’ declining interest in 3-D.
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A24 A Ghost Story Is a Haunting Modern Fable
David Lowery’s new film stars Casey Affleck as an old-fashioned ghost who can’t leave his life behind.
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Paramount Pictures Hollywood Has a Bad-Movie Problem
Domestic audiences are rejecting this summer’s procession of tired sequels, and international grosses won’t be enough to keep studios afloat forever.
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Sony / TriStar Baby Driver Is a Rare Heist Movie With a Heart
Edgar Wright’s latest film is easy to dismiss as an exercise in style, but he’s both paying homage to, and subverting, the morality of the getaway driver.
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Gunpowder & Sky The Little Hours Is an Alt-Comedy Gone Medieval
Jeff Baena’s new film juxtaposes foul-mouthed 21st-century humor with bawdy tales from the Middle Ages.
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Warner Bros. Will Ferrell Needs to Be Weird Again
Films like The House, which cast the actor as a frustrated suburban everyman, are a waste of his unique comic talents.
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Netflix Netflix’s Okja Is a Must-See Fable About a Super-Pig
The sublime new film from Bong Joon-ho, who directed Snowpiercer, follows a young Korean girl’s relationship with a genetically enhanced farm animal.
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Paramount Pictures Has Michael Bay Fallen Out of Love With the Military?
Amid the cacophony of Transformers: The Last Knight, one thing stands out as strange: The soldiers are the villains.
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HBO How Will Silicon Valley Work Without T.J. Miller?
The mercurial comedian, who plays the disruptive Erlich Bachman, departed the show under mysterious circumstances in Sunday’s season finale.
