All Quiet on the Western Front, Again
How does the graphic new adaptation of the classic book measure up against the earlier screen version?
Madelyn Cline
Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, the young star has made her mark on Hollywood with Netflix’s Outer Banks
The Magic Touch
How Channing Tatum’s Magic Mike franchise morphed from a film for teenage boys into a feminist masterpiece
Sick or Genius?
Directors can’t stop making movies about tortured artists
A Life Less Ordinary
One Fine Morning stars Léa Seydoux as a woman seeking to balance her everyday obligations with a passionate affair. Its director, Mia Hansen-Løve, tells how the film came to be
From “Mini-Documentaries” to Major Ones
Success, for Daniel Roher, is bittersweet. While he’s winning praise and awards for Navalny, the subject of his inspiring documentary is in a Siberian gulag
Lukas Dhont
In an interview, the young director discusses his film Close, Belgium’s submission to the Academy Awards, which has earned comparisons to François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows
Frida Gustavsson
The star of Netflix’s Vikings first emerged on the scene as one of the fashion industry’s top models
The Re-invention of John Stonehouse
Succession star Matthew Macfadyen leads a raucous new drama about the stranger-than-fiction story of a British politician who faked his own death in 1974
Family Fiction
The Super 8 Years brings the Nobel Prize–winning French novelist Annie Ernaux’s high literary style to the screen
Mr. Bad Guy
No one was a better thug on-screen, or off, than Lawrence Tierney
Lighter than Air
Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 short, “The Red Balloon,” is high art for all ages
Luke Millington-Drake
While the British actor is best known for his Keira Knightley parodies on TikTok, his TV career is taking off
Diego Calva
For his first role in an American movie, the Mexican actor stars alongside Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie in the Hollywood epic Babylon
Vicky Krieps
The Phantom Thread actress stars as Empress Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria, a role previously inhabited by Romy Schneider and that hints at Princess Diana’s struggles, in Corsage, out next week
Beatrice Grannò
The Italian actress discusses her American-TV debut: The White Lotus, Season Two
The Next Step
Published just before the pandemic, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse captured the world with its message of kindness and went on to become the all-time best-selling U.K. hardback. Now the illustrated tale is headed to the big screen on Christmas Day
The Duke and Duchess of Drama
Harry and Meghan’s new Netflix documentary ignores reality for the higher purpose of demonizing the royal family—and elevating themselves
It’s Complicated
A new film re-examines Tolstoy’s marriage—a subject that has inspired more than a century of commentary, from dueling novellas to literary mock trials
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gainsbourged
From the perils of aging to the joys of parenthood—and the undertow of depression—the French singer and actress is now happily looking ahead
Packages and Kings
How, amid the wreckage of Heaven’s Gate, a couple of young agents rebuilt the movie business in their own image
Go Big or Go Home
A new generation is discovering the pleasures of classic movies at Alexander Olch’s Lower East Side revival house, Metrograph
The King of Lies
Separating fact from fiction in the latest, heavily fabricated season of The Crown
The Jewel Is The Crown
Even though Season Five of Netflix’s hit series is a laughable portrait of Princess Diana and Prince Charles, the show’s critics will keep watching
