In Praise of Leonardo DiCaprio, Our Finest Comic Actor
DiCaprio’s hilarious performance is the glue that holds One Battle After Another together — as it does so…
‘Mussolini’ Review on MUBI: You Can’t Look Away
The director jams as many moving parts, camera tricks, and maximalist flourishes he can fit into his portrait…
Seth Meyers in a Tank Top Won Late Night This Week
Photo: Late Night with Seth Meyers Welcome to the first week of New Normal for late night. Jimmy…
Mary Boone, Gallery Queen of the ’80s, Is Selling Art Again
Photo: Dina Litovsky for New York Magazine In the elevator of the uptown gallery Lévy Gorvy Dayan, which…
The Task’s Dulcet Tones of Delaware County
Wooder, houmes, and hoe-gies — those sticky pronunciations of water, homes, and a totally rad sandwich became a…
Oscar Winner ‘Apollo 13’ Is Back in Theaters
Photo: Universal Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection There’s a throwaway moment early in Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 that I find…
Mark William Lewis Is A24 Music’s Canary in the Coal Mine
When Mark William Lewis thinks about his songs, they summon a particular image in his mind. It’s a…
The Long Walk’s Brutal New Ending, Explained
Photo: Murray Close/Lionsgate/Courtesy Everett Collection Spoilers ahead for the plot and ending of The Long Walk. Few authors…
You Can’t Look Away From Cooper Hoffman
In Poetic License, Hoffman is like a Gen-Z Vince Vaughn, bullshitting sophistication at a mile a minute, but…
‘Maddie’s Secret’ Is That It’s a Horror Movie
Maddie’s Secret mines melodrama for comedy, but pushes it so far, it swings back around to being emotionally…
Willem Dafoe & Greta Lee Are So Good in ‘Late Fame’
“You must have been beautiful when you were young,” Greta Lee says to Willem Dafoe at one point…
Sorrentino Finds Beauty in Unknowability
Despite his current reputation as a creator of aggressively aestheticized films, Paolo Sorrentino was once a director of…