Movies
Cannes 2026: Dua, Flesh and Fuel, Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building
If the response to the competition has been muted thus far, then the immense quality of the sidebars has more than made up for it. Critics’ Week is one such sidebar, and this dispatch includes three works that are...
TV Shows
Netflix’s The Crash Is Exactly as Damning as You’ve Heard — And It’s Infuriating
Netflix’s documentaries can be hit-or-miss.Some rarely hit the mark, while others send the internet abuzz and spark that old-school watercooler talk.And for better or for worse, mostly worse, The Crash falls...
Movies
Netflix’s “The Boroughs” Offers a Clever Spin on the “Stranger Things” Formula
The easy shorthand for how to describe Netflix’s “The Boroughs” is that it’s like “Stranger Things” with walkers instead of bicycles, and that’s not just because of the foundational similarities in its plotting. The score, the credits font, and...
Books
The Bestselling Books of the Week, According to All the Lists
As usual with bestseller lists, the weeks close to each other resemble each other, though there are some key differences. For one, Caro Claire Burke’s tradwife thriller Yesteryear is the only book holding on to the coveted status of...