A Perfectly Charming Chinese Girl Against long odds and in the face of exclusionary casting, Anna May Wong bequeathed us an extraordinary cinematic legacy. Thomas Doherty 9 Jan 2025 · 11 min read
Unmasked and Anonymous A brief history of Bob Dylan on screen. Benjamin Kerstein 1 Jan 2025 · 18 min read
Ghosts of Electricity The magisterial incomprehensibility of Bob Dylan’s ‘Visions of Johanna.’ Thomas Larson 30 Dec 2024 · 8 min read
Printing the Legend The naysayers are dead wrong about James Mangold’s remarkable new film about Bob Dylan and the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s. Ronald Radosh 26 Dec 2024 · 15 min read
Moral Permission to Murder Dostoevsky and the assassination of Brian Thompson. Julia Friedman / David Hawkes 23 Dec 2024 · 6 min read
The Eerie Beauty of ‘Flow’ Gints Zilbalodis’s beautiful dystopian story feels like the start of a new era in cinema, or at least the invitation to one. Roy Wayne Meredith III 4 Dec 2024 · 5 min read
Savage Entertainment A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 14 Nov 2024 · 30 min read
Megalopolis: Bloated, Outré—and Brilliant Like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, it’s chaos alright—but it’s a dazzling chaos. Ralph Leonard 13 Nov 2024 · 8 min read
Decline and Folly ‘Megalopolis’ and the rise and fall of Francis Ford Coppola. Oliver Jia 13 Nov 2024 · 13 min read
The Baby Gate. A Memoir. So that’s how a fatherhood ends. A few UPCs, like those you find on packs of toilet tissue, delivered via email. Steve Salerno 8 Nov 2024 · 23 min read
‘Bright Lights, Big City’ at Forty Jay McInerney’s debut novel was the first work of fiction to explore yuppie culture, and its success changed American publishing. Kevin Mims 6 Nov 2024 · 16 min read
All Hail the New Flesh For all its decorative asides about predatory male sexuality, ‘The Substance’ is most coherently understood as a morality tale about the folly of feminist illusions. Charlotte Allen 1 Nov 2024 · 11 min read
Sonny Side Up Al Pacino’s personal life has been a bit of a train wreck, but his new memoir leaves no doubt that acting has been the most important thing in his life. Kevin Mims 28 Oct 2024 · 21 min read
Reading Nietzsche in Amsterdam Lale Gül’s autobiographical novel about a young Muslim woman living in the Netherlands has led to death threats and ostracism. But it is a work of admirable intelligence and courage. Brad Strotten 25 Oct 2024 · 7 min read
A Joke Too Far? Todd Phillips’s unfairly reviled sequel raises interesting questions about the artistic licence auteurs take with well-known properties. Allan Stratton 24 Oct 2024 · 11 min read
