Arts & Culture

Here is a movie made for and about the people who believe they are the essence of American normalcy, a movie that dutifully flatters and celebrates them even as it works to expand who that normalcy actually includes

The director seems to be in pursuit of a broader tapestry: The Russia he presents is a wasteland of survival, where a woman’s only hope is pairing off with a moneyed man

The Strangers: Prey at Night has a slow and rather grim first half, but then, in the home stretch, takes a welcome turn into the seriously silly

It has impenetrable technobabble jutting up against awkward football metaphors and a reverie on peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches.

Already the show’s producers have revealed, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Roseanne and Dan Conner (Barr and John Goodman) voted for Trump, which has created a rift between Roseanne and her sister

The Looming Tower is a show about the human relationships that keep systems functioning — and how when those relationships break down, the system does, too

… This first English-language feature from Italian director Paolo Virzi (Human Capital, Like Crazy) is at times moving in its sincerity, thanks to stellar casting and the director’s clear-eyed perspective on aging and dementia …

Thoroughbreds’ best trick is to convince us, through the aching stillness of its stars’ eyes, that it might not actually be a twisty, twisted thriller inspired by the likes of Strangers on a Train

No other series even attempts to capture the tremendous variety within Asian America, much less to do so unassumingly

The film sends the simultaneous messages that it’s futile to coddle children but also that it’s okay to feel the icky stuff that you feel.