Playing God
On the eve of the Oscars, reiterations of Frankenstein are taking over Hollywood. Why now?
The Amazing Race
Bobi Wine’s journey from pop star to presidential candidate dominated headlines in Uganda. Now, thanks to an Oscar-nominated documentary, the conversation continues around the world
Do It Like the French Do!
Fresh from playing Coco Chanel in The New Look, Juliet Binoche takes on the role of the live-in cook of a celebrated gourmand in The Taste of Things
Lucas Zelnick
After a brief stint as a corporate strategist, the young comedian started a stand-up club in Manhattan
A Cinematic Séance
Peter Bogdanovich interviewed all the greats, from Hitchcock to Tarantino. Now you can hear the top filmmakers of the 21st century commune with the giants of Old Hollywood
Mob-Wife Style
Sofía Vergara becomes Miami’s biggest drug lord in the new Netflix series Griselda, and leaves audiences with one burning question: Who is writing this nonsense?
Breaking the Mode
A new series tells the story of Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, and the momentous couture collection that rose from the ashes of W.W. II, changing fashion forever
The Long Good-Bye
After 12 seasons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David’s mostly improvised juggernaut and HBO’s longest-running comedy, comes to an end. Well, probably …
Flyboys
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’s new Apple+ series, about the gallant Americans who flew Flying Fortresses over Germany, is a big-budget masterpiece. A historian weighs in
Slow Burner
Jack Lowden and Gary Oldman steal the show in Slow Horses, the sleeper hit that captures the mundanity and pettiness, not the glamour, of M.I.5
The Other Side
This year’s Oscar favorite, Jonathan Glazer’s radical re-invention of the Holocaust film, The Zone of Interest, is told from the point of view of the perpetrators
Harsh Realities
A first look at Nicola Peltz-Beckham’s directorial debut, Lola—which leaves much to be desired
Extra Credit
Highly competitive, Da’Vine Joy Randolph transitioned seamlessly from Yale University drama student to opera singer, and now to Oscar nominee, for her masterful performance in The Holdovers
Kai Alexander
The English actor endured boot camp to play a World War II air-force pilot in Masters of the Air, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s new series
Truth and Consequences
The British crime drama Top Boy is among the most discussed shows on Netflix. Why is no one talking about its creator, Ronan Bennett?
Win by a Nose?
Maestro actor and director Bradley Cooper’s hungry Oscar campaign isn’t earning him any fans
Jodie Foster’s Coming of Age
The actress looks back at the time a shooter attempted to assassinate President Reagan on her behalf—and discusses the unexpected perks of being an older woman in Hollywood
Of Human Bondage
Released more than 60 years ago, Dr. No, the first entry in the supercharged spy series, could have been just another B-rate action film. And then Sean Connery strolled in
In Search of Misspent Youth
Hormones, horsepower, and hamburgers: the making of American Graffiti
For the Ages
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made 24 bold and imaginative films before falling out of favor. Now the duo that Martin Scorsese and Tilda Swinton credit as influences are getting their due
Good Help Is Hard to Find
Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter’s cult masterpiece, The Servant, turns 60
A Man Out of Time
How Robert Altman and a down-on-his-luck Elliott Gould re-invented the detective movie
Black Emanuelle Matters
A saucy sexploitation-movie series is being re-assessed as a groundbreaking feminist work in an exhaustive new boxed set
Phases of the Moon
Under the Cherry Moon, Prince’s directorial debut—a black-and-white passion project set on the glistening Côte d’Azur and starring Kristin Scott Thomas—bombed when it premiered in 1986. Did the critics miss the point?
