A Tale of Two Brothers
How Herman and Joe Mankiewicz won and lost the Hollywood dream
Old-School
Cultural and racist stereotypes aside, films like Dangerous Minds suffer from a deeper flaw. Two professors turn to its predecessor, The Corn Is Green, for clues
The Flames of Corruption
A Romanian documentary might be the most explosive film of the year. And an Oscar front-runner
Pawn Star
It’s sexy. It’s smart. The Queen’s Gambit gets chess (and the game’s inherent sexism) just about right
Citizen Mank
David Fincher and Gary Oldman illuminate the tortured psyche of one of Hollywood’s greatest screenwriters
Diana Enters the Firm
That wedding. Those rumors. The scandals. A sneak peek at the new season of The Crown
When the Sun Set on Billy Wilder
Despite Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, and The Apartment, the director had become unbankable by the 1970s
Maria Bakalova
The 24-year-old whom Rudy Giuliani couldn’t keep his hands off of—and who almost stole the Borat sequel
Noah Jupe
The star of this month’s The Undoing has six years of acting under his belt. For a 15-year-old, that’s saying a lot
The Dark Side of Lolita
Sue Lyon was 14 when she starred in the film. The producer slept with her anyway
Bad Lighting
Alexandra Pelosi’s latest documentary, American Selfie, offers a chaotic, unsettling snapshot of the times we’re living in
Infidelity and Murder at a Private New York School
The director of The Night Manager focuses on Manhattan’s addled elite in HBO’s The Undoing
Second-Wives Club
Armie Hammer, Lily James, and Kristin Scott Thomas remake the Hitchcock classic Rebecca
For a Good Time in Paris, Call Her
“Madame Claude” supplied high-end prostitutes to J.F.K., the Shah of Iran, Frank Sinatra, and others. Was she a feminist icon or a thug?
Charlotte Hope
The Game of Thrones actress on the difficulty of moving on from playing Henry VIII’s first wife
Out of Control
Filmed in secrecy in the months since the coronavirus outbreak, Alex Gibney’s new documentary delivers the true tale—and scope—of the U.S.’s failure
Killing Jason Bourne: Stoppard’s Secret Movie Scripts … Revealed!
Britain’s most esteemed playwright quietly contributed to the scripts for Star Wars, Schindler’s List, The Bourne Ultimatum, My Mom’s a Werewolf, and 102 Dalmatians, among others
Rupert Everett Can’t Help Himself
The devastating male beauty of 80s and 90s cinema, the star of Another Country, Dance with a Stranger, and My Best Friend’s Wedding, plays a porno villain in the new British series Adult Material
Collins on the Rocks
American expats are fuming over Emily in Paris, Darren Star’s absurd new Netflix series
Trump’s Spitting Image
Get ready for a new cast of puppets—Beyoncé! Bezos! Kardashians! Kanye! Ivanka! Thunberg! Zuckerberg!—as Britain’s biting, satirical, take-no-prisoners Spitting Image returns to television
Hear Them Roar
Susan Sontag, Germaine Greer, Norman Mailer, and others battle over “women’s lib” in a rarely seen documentary about the epic 1971 all-star debate
A Different Draft of History
Oktoberfest 1900 gives the Bavarian beer festival an injection of Scorsese menace and mayhem
Lust in Translation
Bill Murray is back in the picture in Sofia Coppola’s new film about Gen X marriage, On the Rocks
