Movies

Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe) is “a man of letters,” declares a young man who accosts him on the street one day, eagerly explaining he’s stumbled across a poetry collection Saxberger wrote long ago and believes it to be an...

Rarely has an animated show felt more like an extension of its creator’s personality than Netflix’s “Alley Cats,” a Ricky Gervais production from top to fuzzy bottom. It’s a disheartening reminder of how far the once-creative star of “The...

Early on in Todd Haynes’ “Safe,” an unwatched television broadcasts a half-heard report on Elizabeth Bouvia, a woman paralyzed by cerebral palsy and stricken with degenerative arthritis. Bouvia became a figurehead for the American right-to-die movement in the 1980s....

On August 3th, 2026, as I was writing to wish Professor Robert Thurman a happy birthday, I was saddened to learn that he passed away in Woodstock on June 16th of this year. Now I am wondering whether he...

In Jane Schoenbrun’s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” horror, cinema, and desire are intertwined. Though similar in some respects to their previous films, “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” and “I Saw the TV Glow,” in...

How do you navigate the highs and lows of high school when you also have a terminally ill parent? This is the question at the center of Julia Hart‘s latest musical drama, “Don’t Say Good Luck,” which stars Sunny...

One of the few ingenious ideas Lucasfilm has had across its increasingly stale Disney+ “Star Wars” era has been handing various animation studios their own lightsabers via the anime anthology “Star Wars: Visions.” Unlike their live‑action and Lucasfilm Animation...

After an unlikely beginning as a series of NBC Sports TV commercials in 2013 and a spectacular, awards-spangled run on Apple TV as a beacon of mental health positivity and Capra-esque optimism, “Ted Lasso” ended on a near-perfect note....

If you spent the last few vacation seasons immersed in “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” then the new Prime Video series “Sterling Point” might be your next watch. There’s the YA novel aura, magical island escapism, and an ensemble...

Come for the nature shots, stay for the compelling characters from Nevada Barr’s novels.USA Network’s “Anna Pigeon” is filled with beautiful Montana vistas (even if shooting took place in neighboring Alberta, Canada) and golden-hour glows as it follows its...