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New Directors, New Films
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“The Drama” Struggles to Justify Its Combustible Premise
Does the movie itself know who she is? I’m not so sure. Emma is a literary editor, though the specifics are awfully vague—a late subplot involving challenges on the...
The Team Behind the A.I. Lego-Style Videos That Lampoon Trump’s War in Iran
Explosive News posted its first Lego-style videos during the U.S. and Israel’s bombing campaign on Iranian nuclear facilities last June. When the war began, in February, the representative said,...
Broadway’s “Dog Day Afternoon” Is a Dog
Sidney Lumet’s kinetic, emotionally complex film has been transformed into a hokey sitcom with gunshots. Source link
Savannah Guthrie’s Excruciating Story, on “Today”
Guthrie had agreed to do the interview as a desperate final appeal. Someone, she kept saying to Kotb—someone must know something. She’s right. You can’t just make a person...
The Sci-Fi Novelist Who Disappeared for Decades
In “What We Are Seeking,” the cult author Cameron Reed returns to show us a strange, totally alien world that somehow feels like our own. Source link
The New Museum Returns, but Humans Are Left Behind
The New Museum knows that most viewers will be of two minds about “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” a blockbuster exhibition meant to crown the museum’s reopening after...
How World Cup Players Are Navigating Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
In addition to these travel bans, the decision to issue any visa is entirely at the discretion of the U.S. government, and Trump has made no secret about which...
How to Measure the Good Life
In “The Meaning of Your Life,” he no longer trumpets free markets, extolls entrepreneurs, or praises work as “a blessing,” as he did in earlier books. Now he claims...
The Ample Rewards of Ben Lerner’s Slender New Novel
But it isn’t just the narrator making free with his sources. Thomas bears a resemblance to, among others, Alexander Kluge, the acclaimed author, philosopher, and filmmaker, who was also...