World
“Dead Man’s Wire” Is a Tangle of Loose Threads
The film draws a link between these journalistic versions and the unfolding action through the character of Linda Page (Myha’la), a TV reporter on the scene outside the office...
The Gospel According to Emily Henry
“I’m a huge dog person, which means that I experience death somewhat regularly, with the most beloved creature in my life,” she went on. “Every time that happens, you...
In Tracy Letts’s “Bug,” Crazy Is Contagious
In Cromer’s framing, that hollowness begins to feel like the play’s sad theme: when someone is on a desperate hunt for meaning, the source of it ultimately doesn’t matter...
What “The Pitt” Taught Me About Being a Doctor
“The Pitt” easily could have felt like one long sequence of overstuffed, heavy-handed scenes. It’s a testament to the show’s artfulness that, most of the time, it doesn’t. Instead,...
What “The Pitt” Taught Me About Being a Doctor
“The Pitt” easily could have felt like one long sequence of overstuffed, heavy-handed scenes. It’s a testament to the show’s artfulness that, most of the time, it doesn’t. Instead,...
The Zealous Voyagers of “Magellan” and “The Testament of Ann Lee”
Where does such a charge leave Magellan, despoiler of every Eden he encounters? The film, to its credit, does not skimp on paradisiacal visions. Every shot of the tropics...
Is Life a Game?
What does make a meal or a trip “successful”? It’s hard to say; this is one of the reasons that you can see value capture happening and be almost...
Dances of the Georgian Court and Countryside
Many will remember Daniil Simkin for his technically brilliant dancing at American Ballet Theatre. He is now a freelancer and a producer; his latest project, “Sons of Echo,” is...
Béla Tarr’s Unbroken Visions
A titanic artist’s death is a terrible shock. In the case of the Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, who has died after a long illness, at the age of seventy,...
Barry Blitt’s “Guzzler”
When President Trump announced the U.S. military’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the cartoonist Barry Blitt decided that his image for the cover of the January 19, 2026,...
