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Christopher Nolan’s creation is a big movie in every technical sense. But inside, it is diminished and faded: heroes who aren’t allowed to be heroes and gods who aren’t allowed to be gods.
Men are quietly leaving the workforce—not for lack of jobs, but for lack of purpose.
The Grift Industrial Complex targeted Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey—and got buried.
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, shot entirely on IMAX cameras, is the newest chapter in an old story: technological innovation creating new forms of art.
When critics start issuing dictates, they end up excluding broad swathes of art and culture as well as whole areas of human experience.
How the beautiful game convinced the world that boredom is sophistication.
Total disclosure, as Spielberg imagines it, is a beautiful thing to watch. It is also a fantasy.
Nearly 250 years on, Laclos’s novel of seduction and treachery continues to scandalise.
A tribute to David Hockney (1937–2026).
The #CancelColbert saga in 2014 established the paradigm for countless hashtag controversies that followed.
Love them or hate them, lists are now firmly established—along with cats and porn—among the apex predators of the modern internet.
The new Michael Jackson biopic and the campaign to whitewash the King of Pop’s reputation.
Outrage over a black Helen of Troy misunderstands the long Western tradition of radically reinventing classical myths.
Susan Owens’s handsome new monograph reconsiders the life and career of the English landscape painter John Constable.
CBC-funded TV producers using fake names are ambushing Canadians who take a positive view of their country—including an 82-year-old Ontario grandfather who invited the film crew into his home.