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  1. theater review
    The Encores! Once Upon a Mattress Is the Biggest Summer-Camp Show EverSutton Foster and friends play it really big and really broad for this lively short run.
    By Jackson McHenry
  2. theater review
    Diary of an Overbooked Theater-Festival Surfer: Week ThreeJack! Rose! Jack! Rose! And Eugene Onegin.
    By Sara Holdren
  3. theater review
    The Long Zoom of Public ObscenitiesA story of bringing a partner home to Kolkata is steeped in naturalism.
    By Sara Holdren
  4. movie review
    Thelma Gives 94-Year-Old June Squibb the Role of a LifetimeJosh Margolin’s Sundance comedy, about an elderly woman on a quest to find the crooks who scammed her, never feels lazy, cheap, or cruel.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  5. the industry
    We Owe PitchforkFor all its chaotic choices, the site reshaped how we think about music.
    By Craig Jenkins
  6. sundance 2024
    Love Lies Bleeding Needs More Than Violence and GrandeurRose Glass’s new thriller, starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian, is passionate and bold, but can rely too much on stylized glimpses of gore.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  7. sundance 2024
    The Outrun Shows Us Saoirse Ronan at Her Most TranscendentDirector Nora Fingscheidt’s Sundance drama stars Ronan as a recovering alcoholic who’s back in her childhood home in the Orkney Islands.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  8. sundance 2024
    Presence Is the Best Thing Steven Soderbergh’s Done in AgesIt’s an art film that also works as a spellbinding horror film.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  9. sundance 2024
    Love Me Asks Too Many QuestionsKristen Stewart and Steven Yeun star in an emo version of Wall-E that is furiously literal-minded.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  10. sundance 2024
    In Search of a More Welcoming RealityJane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow is an enveloping, confounding film about isolation, gender transition, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
    By Alison Willmore
  11. sundance 2024
    Two Iconic Oddballs Make the Perfect Pair in Between the TemplesNathan Silver’s clever Sundance comedy stars Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane, two iconic weirdos from different eras of American cinema.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  12. sundance 2024
    The Moving Ibelin Captures a Life Only Seemingly Half-LivedBenjamin Ree’s powerful new Sundance documentary gently uncovers a dying young man’s online life, full of love, connection, and humor.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  13. theater review
    Diary of an Overbooked Theater-Festival Surfer: Week TwoPuppets, worms, toilets, and a really aggressive Shakespeare take.
    By Sara Holdren
  14. opera review
    An Epic Set in Xenophobic Limbo: Huang Ruo’s Angel IslandFrom the walls of an immigrant detention cell to the opera stage.
    By Justin Davidson
  15. movie review
    Netflix’s New Heist Movie Lift Wastes a Fun CastKevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Vincent D’Onofrio are trying to steal Jean Reno’s gold. Somehow, we don’t really care.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  16. movie review(s)
    A Guide to the Blue-Collar Killing-Machine Movies of JanuaryFrom bee movies to B movies, here’s what you need to know about whether to watch The Beekeeper, The Bricklayer, or The Painter.
    By Alison Willmore
  17. movie review
    In the Moving Bye Bye Tiberias, Hiam Abbass Considers the Cost of WarPalestinian-born actress Hiam Abbass will break your heart in this documentary portrait of her family, filmed by her daughter Lina Soualem.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  18. movie review
    The Ruthless New Mean Girls Knows Better Than to Try and Make Fetch HappenA pretty good remake proves the Plastics will never die.
    By Jackson McHenry
  19. movie review
    Killers of the Flower Moon Turns Out to Be the Simplest, Slipperiest of ThingsIt’s not Martin Scorsese’s western, and it’s not another gangster epic. It’s his marriage story.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  20. movie review
    There’s Nothing Else Like The Book of Clarence, for Better and WorseEven if it doesn’t work, there’s something admirable about how at ease Jeymes Samuel’s new film is with its own erratic rhythms.
    By Alison Willmore
  21. tv review
    True Detective Crawls Back From the VoidAlmost ten years after a tracking-shot episode set an impossible standard, the HBO show is reinventing itself for the better.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  22. theater review
    Can You Put Your Faith in Prayer for the French Republic?It’s a timely and engaged play, but that engagement is glib.
    By Sara Holdren
  23. movie review
    The Transcendent Society of the Snow Has Existential BiteNot since Martin Scorsese’s Silence has a film so thoughtfully considered what faith can, and can’t, do.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  24. carmen
    Opera Review: A Maybe-Midwestern Carmen With No Ticket OutAn attempt at modernization that diminishes the opera’s timeliness.
    By Justin Davidson
  25. movie review
    The Boys in the Boat Is Better Than You’ve HeardDirected by George Clooney, this period rowing drama is the kind of unfussy medium-budget prestige pic Hollywood rarely makes anymore.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  26. movie review
    In Ferrari, Adam Driver Is a Force of Steel, Asphalt, and DeathMichael Mann’s long-gestating movie is elegant and restless, with a sense throughout that something horrific is lurking around each corner.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  27. movie review
    The Push-Pull of Brutality and Joy at the Heart of The Color PurpleThe movie musical adaptation of the classic novel (and film) carves out its own path.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  28. movie review
    Anyone But You Has More Sex on Its Mind Than Your Average Rom-ComMovies keep trying to bring back the romantic comedy. This Glen Powell–Sydney Sweeney vehicle might actually bring back the sex comedy instead.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  29. movie review
    Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard Are So Weirdly Right Together in MemoryNot a lot of Michel Franco’s somber drama makes sense, but it’s a movie clearly meant to be carried by its leads.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  30. movie review
    Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Is a Visionary SlogThe first part of his Star Wars–ish Netflix saga looks amazing but has lifeless characters and little excitement.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  31. movie review
    All of Us Strangers Is Two Movies Trying to Be OneAnd, with all love for Paul Mescal, the romance with his character is the weaker of the two.
    By Alison Willmore
  32. movie review
    Saltburn Is All Vibes and Empty ProvocationsEmerald Fennell may be an exasperating filmmaker, but she’s incapable of being boring.
    By Alison Willmore
  33. comedy review
    A Slam Dunk From Gary GulmanBorn on 3rd Base shows the vast possibilities of observational comedy — and how an “important” topic can also be delightfully petty.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  34. movie review
    There’s No Heroism or Fantasy in John Woo’s Brutal Silent NightIn his latest action thriller, the director foregrounds grief and pain over the balletic mayhem of his previous work.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  35. movie review
    Maestro Is a Masterful Reconstruction That Remains Just ThatThe Leonard Bernstein biopic somehow proves that Bradley Cooper is a director of genuine vision, even though it’s not a particularly successful movie.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  36. theater review
    An Estate That Divides: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s AppropriateSarah Paulson is furious and fearsome.
    By Sara Holdren
  37. theater review
    A Cold-Blooded Night of the IguanaA Tennessee Williams curio whose temperature never rises above a simmer.
    By Jackson McHenry
  38. movie review
    Alphaville ForeverJean-Luc Godard’s wildly influential 1965 film is restored and back in theaters. There’s still no other movie like it.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  39. movie review
    See Wim Wenders’s Anselm in 3-D So You Can Be Extra DisturbedThe director’s beautiful new film about Anselm Kiefer is more an experience than a documentary.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  40. theater review
    When the Play’s Not the ThingToo often, great performances and stagecraft are let down by the script behind them.
    By Sara Holdren
  41. movie review
    Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget Is No Chicken Run, But Really, What Is?Playing on Netflix, Aardman’s sequel to its 2000 animated hit might not fully capture the magic of the original, but it’s still fun.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  42. endings
    The Crown Says the Quiet Parts Out LoudPeter Morgan’s final word on Elizabeth’s reign hits with all the subtlety of a two-by-four to the face.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  43. movie review
    We Shouldn’t Have to Grade Barbie on a CurveGreta Gerwig made a weird movie based on a famous toy line. Should that be enough?
    By Alison Willmore
  44. album review
    Nicki Minaj Locks the GatesPink Friday 2 drips with the irritating realization that running a kingdom means defending its walls.
    By Craig Jenkins
  45. theater review
    The Too-Steady Charm of How to Dance in OhioA winning cast of autistic actors elevates a rote concept.
    By Jackson McHenry
  46. movie review
    Ava DuVernay’s Origin Devastates Its AudienceThe new Ava DuVernay film is both essay and melodrama, though neither description quite does it justice.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  47. movie review
    Days of Heaven and the Things That Don’t LastTerrence Malick’s 1978 wonder, maybe the most beautiful film of all time, is back in theaters.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  48. movie review
    The Seductive Eileen Flirts With DisasterAnne Hathaway goes Hitchcock blonde and Thomasin McKenzie is deceptively mousy, but the real MVP of this Ottessa Moshfegh is Marin Ireland.
    By Alison Willmore
  49. movie review
    Leave the World Behind Doesn’t Know What to Do With the ApocalypseSam Esmail’s thriller takes a lot of liberties with Rumaan Alam’s novel, but its changes are all for the worse.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  50. theater review
    Reflections on Lost Lands: Manahatta and Life & Times of Michael KOnstage, the commoditization of Lenape land and the reclamation of a South African farm.
    By Sara Holdren
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