The Oscars Finally Find Their Rightful Winners
Last night, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored four artists whose cinematic achievements had been overlooked for decades.
Film
Frankie Is a Moody Meditation on Mortality
Ira Sachs’s portrait of an actress and her family is beautiful in the moment, but too gentle to leave a lasting impression.
The Most Exciting Part of Terminator: Dark Fate Isn’t the Action
The latest reboot of the sci-fi series brings back Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor—a character the audience can care about.
Parasite and the Curse of Closeness
Bong Joon Ho’s film depicts a class system in which the most profound harms result from the relationships of interdependence between rich and poor.
A Man Moves Into a Lighthouse. Strangeness Ensues.
Robert Eggers’s new film, starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, is an enthralling exploration of the mania of isolation.
Jojo Rabbit Is a Fraught Tonal Experiment
Taika Waititi tries to balance zany comedy and grim realism in his new coming-of-age film set in Nazi Germany. He doesn’t quite succeed.
Disney Delivers a Truly Bizarre Sleeping Beauty Sequel
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil probably shouldn’t exist, but it is at least transfixing and stars a genuinely charismatic Angelina Jolie.
The Charming Candor of Julie Andrews’s New Memoir
In Home Work, the legendary actor comes to terms with an acting career she couldn’t always control.
How Bong Joon Ho Invented the Weird World of Parasite
“It all came to me, and I wrote like it was a hurricane.”
The King Sacrifices the Best of Fact and Fiction
David Michôd’s rendering of the saga of Henry V sacrifices both the realism the director wants to convey and the humor of Shakespeare’s plays.