Oh wow, well. It’s not my place to say whether or not I agree with these statements, my job here is to provide you with accurate information and let you make your own decisions based on that information. It sounds like there’s a lot going on in this piece about politics, religion, and the role […]
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So it is, unfortunately, with “The Matrix Resurrections,” which makes poignant use of hair cuts and color to mark the eighteen years separating the new film from the last installment in the “Matrix” trilogy. The first sequel, “Reloaded,” is the “Godfather: Part II” of sci-fi movies: the Wachowskis went far beyond the earnestness of the […]
Didion was a pattern-seeker—a writer with an uncanny ability to scan a text, a folder of clippings, or an entire society and, like a genius eying figures, find the markers pointing out how the whole worked. In a New Yorker essay about Hemingway, her early influence, she performed an unmatched reading of the beginning of […]
Asteroid nomenclature is regulated by the International Astronomical Union, based in Paris, and vanity naming, Mainzer said recently, is “one of the perks” of her field. She is the principal investigator for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission , which NASA calls “the largest space-based asteroid-hunting project in history,” and teaches at the […]
This is not the plot of the latest horror film from A24 but the unfortunate tale of Steven Spielberg’s efforts to remake “West Side Story,” the movie musical about love and ethnic rivalry among New York City gangs. A swooping opening shot in the remake shows a rubble-strewn landscape dominated by a billboard announcing “slum […]
Sixty years ago, Robert Wise began his film of “West Side Story” with a view of Manhattan from the sky. The period in which the movie is set could well be—get this—the time at which the original “West Side Story” was taking shape, ahead of its Broadway première, in 1957. It pleases Schrank to plague […]
Three years before it premièred, in 1970, Benjamin Braddock sprang Elaine Robinson from her wedding ceremony with the urgency of a fireman rescuing a baby from a burning building, only to ride into their joint future with a look of numb horror on his face. Have the marital pressures that the show examines changed in […]
My first-ever solid take on Sophie Taeuber-Arp, the subject of a wonderful retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, occurred nine years ago, by way of a survey, also at MOMA, of the genesis of abstract art, circa 1910-25. The execution secretes bits of fun that I hadn’t noticed before: a minuscule, eccentric off-colored shape […]
Ninety-one, and a little slowed but not visibly ailing, Sondheim was greeted by the Broadway audience, as he took his seat, in the left orchestra, with an emotional intensity that was tidal in its ferocity and duration. It was a truth of which he was ruefully aware, writing, in a song called, caustically, “God,” “Still […]
The running time of the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie, “Licorice Pizza,” is a hundred and thirty-three minutes, and much of that time is occupied with running. Remember the explosive scene in “The Master” , when Joaquin Phoenix burst through a door and set off across a plowed and misty field, at full tilt, with […]
Adele is a vocal powerhouse with an out-of-time sensibility, and she takes long hiatuses between albums. It has been six years since her previous record, “25,” and much has changed in the world of popular music, whose pace Adele has long been proudly out of synch with. One reductive description that has been used to […]
Her maladjustment was distinct from that of the contemporaneous blipster or blerd, who felt that he was specially persecuted because of his tastes; J’s awkwardness was personal, and what made “A.B.G.” click was her wry, outlandish subjectivity. The Internet afforded Rae creative freedom, but it came with financial constraints: although fans funded the production of […]
We are in ranching country, though where we are, at any given moment, isn’t always clear; it takes a while to get one’s bearings, economic as much as geographical. We learn that he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, yet refinement of any sort disgusts him; when the governor of the state comes to dine, […]
In the song “I Knew You Were Trouble,” she nodded to the aggressive and trendy sounds of E.D.M., adding a light dubstep drop before the chorus. At the end of the song, she offers a bit of doctrine: “Love is a ruthless game / Unless you play it good and right.” As with much of Swift’s music, […]
The town’s film festival, held each year during the Labor Day weekend, has a reputation for intimacy—celebrities are not subjected to red carpets or corsetry, and the looming mountains have a way of making Hollywood seem garish and far away. She was convincing as Joan Jett, in the 2010 bio-pic “The Runaways,” and as Marylou, […]
The West End Phoenix, a four-year-old community newspaper in Toronto, bills itself as “slow print for fast times”—a reaction against global forces that have been decimating local journalism, if not an analog way of life altogether. “I bemoaned to Richard that we were having trouble getting our bitcoin activated,” Bidini said the other day, referring […]
When he discovers that he has a half sister who was abandoned in infancy by his mother, he asks Lucy to go to Maine and meet the half sister on his behalf. The three female narrators of this novel are, refreshingly, all outside the age range—the years of romantic possibility, from teens to motherhood—during which […]
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, mooching around their Montecito stronghold and desperate to get out for the evening, are picking a movie to see. It is written by Steven Knight, directed by Pablo Larraín, and described at the outset as “a fable from a true tragedy”—fancy talk for “We kind of made this stuff […]
When the third season of “Succession” premièred, a couple of weeks ago, some viewers watching on HBO Max experienced a glitch: instead of being brought to the first episode of the new season, they found themselves rewatching the first episode of the entire series. The series, a brilliant tragedy-satire of the corporate élite, created by […]