Mitski’s New Album Is a Dark Ode to Isolation

Mitski’s New Album Is a Dark Ode to Isolation

Mitski’s sound and writing style have evolved on almost every album she’s released. Her early album “Retired from Sad, New Career in Business,” from 2013, relied on big orchestral swells alongside electronics. Her breakout, “Bury Me at Makeout Creek,” released the following year, felt at times like a punk-rock sprint of guitar and drumbeats. On…

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“What Does That Nature Say to You”: Don’t Meet the Parents

“What Does That Nature Say to You”: Don’t Meet the Parents

Filmmakers like to call themselves storytellers for the same reason that politicians like to call themselves public servants: it’s a show of deference toward a popular ideal. Yet few of them treat stories as their fundamental unit of creation. One who does so is the Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, whose narrative imagination is so fertile…

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Two New Documentaries Are Haunted by Unsettling Natural Wonders

Two New Documentaries Are Haunted by Unsettling Natural Wonders

In “Pompei: Below the Clouds,” Rosi is as quietly watchful as ever, though he is either remarkably skilled or remarkably fortunate in finding individuals whose voices of conscience, matched by action, can stand in for his own. Hence a prosecutor who, wandering into an empty underground room, rails against thieves who, in removing frescoes from…

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Spring Culture Previews—What to Do, See, and Hear This Season

Spring Culture Previews—What to Do, See, and Hear This Season

Calamitous Romance, Political Satire Fashion is drama in some of the most prominent new releases, as in “Marc by Sofia” (March 20), a documentary by Sofia Coppola about Marc Jacobs, anchored by the creation and launch of his Spring 2024 collection. “The Devil Wears Prada 2” (May 1) boasts many of the same actors from…

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