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Netflix Millennial Burnout Is Being Televised
How Fyre Fraud and Tidying Up With Marie Kondo capture a precarious cultural moment
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Netflix Breaking Down the 2019 Oscar Nominations
Roma and The Favourite tied for the most nods in a year when a clear Best Picture front-runner never quite emerged.
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Ablaze Image / Everett Collection On Happiness Road Is a Playful Yet Profound Coming-of-Age Story
The animated Taiwanese film, which is up for an Oscar nomination, is a poignant portrayal of how fantasy and memory shape identity.
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Big Beach What to Expect at This Year’s Sundance Film Festival
Independent cinema’s biggest event starts this week in Utah, kicking off the 2019 movie season.
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NBC The Lackluster Return of Saturday Night Live Had One Real Standout Moment
A delightful “Weekend Update” appearance from John Mulaney and Pete Davidson gave a jolt of energy to an otherwise uninspired episode.
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John Rogers What Jazz in 2019 Will Sound Like
In its 15th go-around, the New York City Winter Jazzfest featured newly mature musical hybrids and a refreshing number of women artists getting their due.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Invisible Children of the Trump Administration
According to a new report, the White House separated many more families than it had previously acknowledged—and failed to keep track of those it separated.
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HBO / David Russell High Maintenance Goes Naked
Season 3 of the wonderful HBO comedy delivers more insights about what humans are like, stripped down.
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Butch Dill / AP How the Showtime Saints Became Championship Favorites
With shrewd drafting and a style adjustment, New Orleans built a team capable of helping out its star quarterback—and winning a Super Bowl.
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Netflix Why People Paid Thousands of Dollars to Attend a Doomed Music Festival
Two new documentaries—Netflix’s Fyre and Hulu’s Fyre Fraud—investigate the origins of a nightmarish event that went viral in 2017.
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HBO Brexit Is Chaos. The Movie About It Is Anything But.
In a new HBO film starring Benedict Cumberbatch, James Graham turns a polarizing national moment into a surprisingly cohesive and engaging story.
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Doug McLean The Joyce Carol Oates Story That Shares DNA With 'Cat Person’
What the debut writer Kristen Roupenian learned from a masterful tale that dramatizes the horrors of being a young woman
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Jonathan Wenk / Focus Features / Everett Collection What It’s Like Making Your First Film After 18 Years in ‘Movie Jail’
Mimi Leder, best known as one of the great TV directors, talks about her new Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic and why it took so long to return to the big screen.
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Frank Augstein / AP To Understand Art, Think Biology
Just as cells are the building blocks of the human body, a painting’s points, lines, colors, and tensions are the building blocks of its life.
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The White House / Arsh Raziuddin / The ... The President’s McFeast
The fast-food dinner Trump hosted was also an argument: about government, about political messaging, about himself.
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Netflix What Netflix Is Learning From the Massive Success of Bird Box
The streaming service’s surprise hit connected with audiences despite middling reviews and a glut of Christmas content to compete with.
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Philippe Matsas / Flammarion A Novel Made for the “Yellow Vest” Moment
Michel Houellebecq’s latest provocation takes aim at the EU.
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HBO True Detective Tries to Reclaim Its Original Glory
In Season 3, the show benefits from the terrific work of Mahershala Ali and from embracing much of what made its initial run so captivating.
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M. Spencer Green / AP / Katie Martin ... R. Kelly and the Cost of Black Protectionism
A Lifetime series that examines long-standing abuse allegations against the singer—and the continued support he has received despite them—contains an uncomfortable truth.
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Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP How the Middling Green Book Became an Oscars Front-Runner
Peter Farrelly’s film has taken over 2019’s awards season despite mounting controversies, critical disinterest, and mediocre ticket sales.
