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  1. theater review
    There and Back Again, in Home, Breaking the Story, and What Became of UsThree onstage journeys between realms.
  2. movie review
    Robot Dreams Is a Good Robot Movie and a Great New York MoviePablo Berger’s Oscar-nominated animated fable is an enchanting tale of friendship against a changing city.
  3. movie review
    Behold, an Actually Good Omen MovieThe First Omen is surprisingly topical, reflecting back societal fears in the form of genre thrills.
  4. cannes 2024
    It’s No Wonder That Cannes Fell for AnoraThere are wild moments in Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner that feel like real life letting itself in through the door and upending the narrative décor.
  5. cannes 2024
    We’ll All Soon Be Talking About the Absurdist On Becoming a Guinea FowlThe Cannes prizewinner will soon be released in the U.S. by A24. Its off-kilter, absurdist vibe is enchanting, but it’s rooted in deep horror.
  6. movie review
    Not Even Jennifer Lopez Seems to Know What Atlas Is Meant to BeThe Netflix original is neither a serious action flick nor a B movie. It’s just a slick, textureless attempt to assure you that AI is your friend.
  7. movie review
    If Glen Powell’s Not Already a Star, This Movie Will Make Him OneRichard Linklater’s Hit Man is a genuinely fresh and surprisingly gentle addition to the assassin genre.
  8. movie review
    Civil War Isn’t the Movie You Think It IsAlex Garland’s war epic is more about how we respond to images of conflict than it is about the conflict itself.
  9. cannes 2024
    The Best Movie at Cannes This Year Is an Oddball Canadian ComedyMatthew Rankin’s Universal Language feels warm and familiar even as we realize just how startlingly original it is.
  10. cannes 2024
    Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope Is As Beguiling As It Is AlienatingOnly Sorrentino could pull off something like this.
  11. sxsw 2024
    The Fall Guy Is a Funny, Romantic, Stunt-Filled DelightRyan Gosling and Emily Blunt have terrific chemistry in this action-packed movie adaptation of the hit 1980s TV series.
  12. movie review
    Dune: Part Two Is Zendaya’s MovieAnd it’s a really good one.
  13. cannes 2024
    The Apprentice Gets Dumber the Longer It Goes OnDirector Ali Abbasi’s portrait of a young Donald Trump never lives up to its strongest performance: Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn.
  14. theater review
    Isolation, Set to Harmony: Three Houses and The Lonely FewBlue notes from lockdown and from musicians on the road.
  15. cannes 2024
    If Only David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds Weren’t So LifelessThere’s adultery and cuckoldry and doubles and all the other good Cronenbergian ideas. But none of it really fits together.
  16. cannes 2024
    Horizon: An American Saga Is Dune: Part One for DadsHi, I’m dads.
  17. cannes 2024
    We’ll Be Yelling About Emilia Pérez Long After Cannes EndsMost people at the 2024 film festival seem to love the movie, and the ones that hate it, really hate it.
  18. cannes 2024
    Rumours’ Goofy Political Satire Has a Giant Glowing BrainThe legendary Canadian director Guy Maddin’s latest, which just premiered at Cannes, has a glorious B-movie sheen.
  19. cannes 2024
    Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada Is the Confession of a Man Who’s Faced DeathRichard Gere and Jacob Elordi star in Paul Schrader’s latest as two versions of a dying filmmaker reckoning with a lifetime of regret.
  20. album review
    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 11
    The Curious Case of the Stereophonic Cast RecordingPaying homage to a band without catalog access is usually a recipe for terrors. Will Butler’s Fleetwood Mac experiment is an impressive exception.
  21. movie review
    Babes Revels in the Grossness of PregnancyBut the Michelle Buteau and Ilana Glazer comedy is better when it’s focused on their characters’ bittersweet friendship.
  22. cannes 2024
    Sicko Yorgos Is BackYorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness delights and luxuriates in absurdity and abasement. He’s fully back in his sandbox.
  23. cannes 2024
    Megalopolis Is a Work of Absolute MadnessThere is nothing in Francis Ford Coppola’s perhaps-final testament that feels like something out of a “normal” movie.
  24. movie review
    The Amy Winehouse Movie Doesn’t Like Amy Winehouse Very MuchWhy is Back to Black so bent on absolving the men in the troubled singer’s orbit?
  25. theater review
    Yale Drama Meets the Psych Ward: Invasive SpeciesMaia Novi applies humor, and Goop, and also Andrew Lloyd Webber, to her fraught experience as a drama student.
  26. movie review
    Furiosa Isn’t Trying to Make the Apocalypse Look CoolGeorge Miller’s Fury Road sequel is a thrill, but also bleaker and more fantastical than you might expect.
  27. theater review
    Here There Are Blueberries Keeps This Moment at Arm’s LengthAs powerful as this Pulitzer-finalist play about Auschwitz is, it studiously avoids the conversations people are having right now.
  28. movie review
    Unfortunately, Madame Web Is Bad in a Boring WayDakota Johnson seems to give up halfway through this superhero movie, which drags through the middle and is inept by the end.
  29. movie review
    The Iron Claw Should Be Even SadderZac Efron, Harris Dickinson, and Jeremy Allen White star in the story of a tragic wrestling family that holds its subjects at arm’s length.
  30. movie review
    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Lacks the Power of Its PredecessorsThe apes look amazing, and this franchise still has a lot on its mind.
  31. movie review
    Harmony Korine’s New Anti-Movie Aggro Dr1ft Looks Cool For a Few MinutesThe night-vision hit-man feature starring Jordi Molla and Travis Scott is a unique exercise in tedium.
  32. movie review
    Gasoline Rainbow Bottles the Feeling of Being 18 AgainMostly in a good way.
  33. theater review
    The Beautiful Oddness of Shimmer and HerringbonePlus: Peregrine Teng Heard’s Redemption Story.
  34. classical-music review
    The Junction Trio Brings a Little Unruliness Back to Carnegie HallPerforming Ives and Zorn alongside Beethoven, three stupendous players glory in skirting the edge of artistic instability.
  35. movie review
    How Do You Know When the World Is Over?Beneath the modest surfaces of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist runs an undercurrent of personal and ecological apocalypse.
  36. theater review
    The On-and-Off Sparks of The Keep Going SongsAbigail and Shaun Bengson’s music-theater piece soars when it’s not trapped in twee.
  37. movie review
    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.
  38. movie review
    The Idea of You Is a Mostly Not-Guilty PleasureAnne Hathaway is just terrific as a 40-year-old woman swept up by a romance with a boy-bander.
  39. movie review
    It’s Desire vs. Domination in the Intensely Erotic FemmeThe razor’s edge between pleasure and pain gives this transgressive thriller its potency.
  40. movie review
    The Bone-Chilling Infested Is Spiders All the Way DownThe first time an army of tiny spider-babies appeared, my body bent into a shape it has never taken before or since.
  41. theater review
    Staff Meal Deserves Five Stars on YelpA play about restaurant-making that’s likely to resonate with any underpaid, overwhelmed, hyperpassionate, exhausted creator.
  42. theater review
    Feeling the Illinoise, This Time Through MovementSufjan Stevens’s album becomes a transcendent theater-dance-music piece.
  43. theater review
    Can You Teach an Old Sport New Tricks? The Great Gatsby on Broadway.Singing through the ash dump.
  44. theater review
    An Evictable Menagerie: Paula Vogel’s Mother PlayRevisiting her chaotic upbringing with intermittent insight.
  45. theater review
    Stomping As They Climb in JordansIfe Olujobi’s claws-out satire doesn’t quite reach the tragic potential of its DEI-in-the-workplace premise.
  46. 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.
  47. theater review
    Don’t Think Too Hard About The Heart of Rock and RollThe Huey Lewis musical is fine, fun, and as lightweight as a cardboard box.
  48. movie review
    An Exploited Neighborhood, Seen Through Children’s EyesMinhal Baig’s We Grown Now tells the story of two childhood best friends in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project.
  49. movie review
    Challengers Is Almost a Sexy MovieJust like it’s almost a good tennis film, and almost the mature starring role Zendaya needed.
  50. theater review
    Eddie Redmayne as the Emcee in Cabaret.
    Dancing on the Surface in Cabaret and OrlandoAtmosphere is all in the loose hustle and bustle of a pre-show, but in a play proper, it can only carry you so far.
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