Sophie Gilbert
Before joining The Atlantic in 2014, she was the arts editor at Washingtonian, where she won three Society of Professional Journalists awards for arts reporting and criticism. She has previously written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The Brooklyn Rail.
How to Tell the Story of a Cult
Two docuseries about NXIVM present a question: Are the people who have escaped a controlling organization the most reliable sources on what happened to them?
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HBO What a Story of 1970s Abortion Activism Can Teach Us Today
For the Jane Collective, organizing safe abortions in pre-Roe America didn’t just serve people in need—it also protected a more hopeful future.
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Anika Molnar / Sister Pictures / BBC / … What This Is Going to Hurt Leaves Out
And what the AMC black comedy about a British obstetrician illuminates about women’s health
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Simon Annand; The Atlantic The Problem of English Identity
And the play that lays bare Britain’s constructed myths
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Universal / Everett; The Atlantic The Review: Knocked Up
Sophie Gilbert, Megan Garber, and Hannah Giorgis discuss Hollywood and the way it depicts abortion (or doesn’t).
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Getty; The Atlantic The Calamity of Unwanted Motherhood
Penelope Mortimer’s 64-year-old novel is a powerful argument for letting women choose when and whether they become a parent.
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Atsushi Nishijima / Apple TV+ / Charlie Le … Why the Puzzle-Box Sci-Fi of Severance Works
Where Lost and Westworld spun out, the Apple TV+ show’s contained world succeeds.
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Aidan Monaghan / Focus Features; Charlie Le Maignan … The Northman’s Surprising Twist on Male Heroism
How the brutal Viking blockbuster uses a millennia-old tale to undermine the toxic masculinity of myth.
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Jonathan Birch / Sundance Now Sympathy for the Movie Star
Ten Percent, a remake of the popular French series Call My Agent, is a surprisingly tender ode to acting.
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Netflix The Cruel Twist of Russian Doll
The show’s second season is more audacious, but also harder to bear.
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Seacia Pavao / HBO Max The Radicalism of an Untamed Appetite
A new HBO show about Julia Child explores the virtues of ambition—whatever the age.
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Beth Dubber / Hulu; Charlie Le Maignan / … Why The Dropout Succeeds Where Other Scammer Shows Fall Short
It’s all too easy to forget the victims and glamorize the grifter.
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Evgeniy Maloletka / AP ‘We Have to Look for Longer’
The curator Sarah Meister on the distinct and meaningful response that war photography can provoke
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Niko Tavernise / 20th Century Fox / Charlie … West Side Story Needed an Update
The original is “a masterpiece … but it’s also a bit of a tough watch today.”
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Getty ; The Atlantic The Unreality of Will Smith’s Oscars Slap
What followed an unprecedented moment of violence was almost as surreal as the incident itself.
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Eric Charbonneau / Disney / Getty; HBO Marilyn Manson Told Us What He Was
A new HBO documentary portrays the actor Evan Rachel Wood’s attempts to get justice for alleged abuse.
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Warner Bros. / Charlie Le Maignan / The … Why Robert Pattinson’s Grim Batman Is Cause for Optimism
By bringing the character back to his noir-detective origins, The Batman shows that comic-book movies can contain multitudes.
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Pamela Littky / FX The Show That Made Single Motherhood Into Art
Pamela Adlon’s Better Things is a tribute to all the people who carry their families because no one else will.
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Erica Parise / Hulu; Charlie Le Maignan / … Justice for Pamela
The brutal sixth episode of Pam & Tommy should have audiences rethinking how culture treated the ’90s sex symbol.
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Apple TV+ When Work Is a Terrifying Dystopia
Severance is an unsettling satire about never being able to leave the office.
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Barry Wetcher / Universal; Charlie Le Maignan / … America Needs a Rom-Com Bailout
“It’s this or porn, people.”
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