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Amazon Studios / Lionsgate What The Big Sick Gets Right About Parenthood
The romantic comedy—about a relationship struggling with culture clash—fleshes out the poignant supporting roles that mothers and fathers can play.
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Doug McLean How Rudyard Kipling Turned His Guilt Into Fiction
The novelist Scott Spencer on the English author’s short story “The Gardener” and what it reveals about transforming shame into art
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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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Logo TV Sasha Velour and Drag's Permanent Revolution
The latest winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race is a politically engaged oddball—which is, in its way, pretty traditional.
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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.
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Skip Bolen / OWN Queen Sugar Deepens Its Complex Family Portrait
In its second season, the Ava DuVernay-helmed show confidently tackles the messy bonds of siblings and the trickledown effects of racial profiling.
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Amazon Studios The Atlantic's Week in Culture
A roundup of our recent writing on arts and entertainment
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Brad Penner / USA TODAY Sports / Reuters Will Years of Losing Make the Philadelphia 76ers Winners?
The team’s notorious “Process,” founded on tanking games, inched closer to paying off with this year’s NBA draft.
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Focus Features The Beguiled Is a Steamy but Restrained Thriller
Sofia Coppola’s new film deploys stars Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell perfectly in a Civil War-era battle of wits.
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Amazon Studios The Big Sick Is the Best Romantic Comedy in Years
Kumail Nanjiani has transmuted a remarkable true story into a warm, big-hearted summer film that deserves to be a blockbuster.
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AP / Eric Risberg Apple Is a Step Closer to Making Its Own TV Shows
The tech giant just hired two industry heavy-hitters as it tries to move into a realm occupied by Netflix and Amazon: scripted television.
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Paramount Transformers: The Last Knight Is More of the Same
This installment marks director Michael Bay's final outing, but the loud, unpleasant franchise isn't planning to go away.
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Warner Bros. How Batman & Robin Changed the Superhero Movie for the Better
Twenty years ago, the George Clooney-starring comic-book sequel flopped with critics and audiences—and set Hollywood heroes on a new path.
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Showtime Twin Peaks Is Finally Headed Somewhere
Seven hours into David Lynch’s much discussed TV revival, its overarching story is coming into focus.
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Drawn & Quarterly The Cartoonist Who Makes You Look Twice
With Boundless, Jillian Tamaki makes a profound case for the primacy of images in storytelling.
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Gianni Fiorito / Mongrel Media The Film That’s Missing From the ‘Century’s Greatest’ Lists
The Great Beauty excels by offering an unsurpassed meditation on a question that confronts all humans lucky enough to live in modernity.
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Sony Pictures Classics Maudie Is an Intimate and Uncomfortable Biopic
Sally Hawkins stars as Maud Lewis, the Canadian folk artist, with Ethan Hawke as her hard-scrabble fisherman husband.
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Disney / Pixar Cars 3: Is Pixar Running Out of Gas?
Another disappointing sequel suggests the studio's consistent excellence is now a thing of the past.
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Focus Features The Book of Henry Is a Warped Nightmare of a Movie
Colin Trevorrow’s follow-up to Jurassic World might be the newest so-bad-it’s-good anti-masterpiece.
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Columbia Pictures What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Unruly’ Women
A new book offers nuanced appreciations of celebrities, from Serena to Madonna to Hillary to Caitlyn, who refused to know their place.
