“Good Time” Is an Instant-Classic Crime Drama for the Age of Trump

The director of “Hamnet” says that her art has been shaped by her early love of manga, her relationship to the natural world, and her neurodivergence.

Bradley Cooper’s latest film, about separated spouses played by Laura Dern and Will Arnett, is scrappy but soul-nourishing.

Some of the medium’s all-time best shows ended, but a crop of new contenders is keeping meaningful audio alive.

The President was drawn to the institution for its cultural prestige. He and his allies made it radioactive.

Jim Jarmusch’s three-part drama, set in New Jersey, Dublin, and Paris, casts such notables as Adam Driver and Cate Blanchett in wry, ironic probes of grown children’s relationships with their parents.

The director’s great achievement was placing real people, with real senses of humor, into the fantasies of mass culture.

A Christmas essay.

In Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s crime novel, Lee Byung-hun plays a newly laid-off executive who launches his own campaign of mass termination.

In a year when the entertainment industry embraced the artificial, extraordinary human acts—from Sarah Snook’s one-woman “Dorian Gray” to Michael B. Jordan’s twin turn in “Sinners”—made their mark.