HBO’s New Documentary Asks You to Talk About Death
Alternate Endings explores how a new generation of elderly Americans is making dying more personal and more open.
Film
The Cheap Thrills of The Kitchen and Why Women Kill
A new TV show and film tell similarly shallow stories about mistreated wives finding empowerment by getting revenge on their husbands.
Why Viacom and CBS Had to Merge to Survive
The two companies have united their broadcasting properties to battle with their rivals.
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette Is a Gripping Mess
The film isn’t so much a mystery thriller as it is an imperfect drama about a woman mired in a creative crisis.
A Movie About Falling in Love With Bruce Springsteen
Blinded by the Light is the earnest, exuberant story of a British Pakistani boy who finds inspiration in the American icon.
How The Hunt Became a Political Rorschach Test
After a series of tweets from President Trump, Universal canceled the release of a film that’s been alternately praised and decried by critics who haven’t seen it.
One Child Nation Reveals the Human Costs of an Infamous Chinese Law
The hit Sundance documentary investigates the grim consequences of China’s family-planning policy in empathetic and intimate terms.
Good Boys Goes Beyond the Dirty Jokes
Gene Stupnitsky’s new film, which follows three middle schoolers bumbling their way through a crazy night, balances raunchy humor with insight.
The Kitchen Is an Amoral, Atonal Mess of a Movie
Not even Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss can salvage this confusing attempt at a gangster film.
How The Sixth Sense Conquered Hollywood in 1999
M. Night Shyamalan’s ghost story was an unlikely box-office success 20 years ago—but a movie like it could happen again today.