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Netflix Is Gobbling Up World Literature March 12, 2025
I’m thinking of a piece of filmed entertainment. It was adapted from a famous, internationally significant novel. It was blessed with lavish budgets, accomplished directors, ambitious visual design. A premiere was announced, ads were purchased, trail...
Princes, Palaces, and Pasta March 11, 2025
He was the author of probably the most loved and admired novel ever written in Italian, but when Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa, died in 1957 at 60, he thought his life as a writer had ended in failure.His only completed novel, Il Gattopardo (T...
The Unbreakable Bond Between Anime and the NBA March 07, 2025
Jordan Poole is best known for getting buckets as the leading scorer on the Washington Wizards. But when he’s not torching defenses, the NBA champion recharges by watching Death Note—a Japanese manga-turned-Netflix series about a notebook that can ki...
'With Love, Meghan' Is a nightmare March 05, 2025
“Has anyone in the world ever been so tickled by the sight of lettuces?” Meghan titters to chef Alice Waters, on the final episode of her new “lifestyle television series,” With Love, Meghan. Meghan’s latest venture is an exercise in how many inspira...
Netflix Unveils 2025 Film Slate January 31, 2025
Tudum! Netflix has unveiled its wide-ranging 2025 film slate. During a news-packed “Next on Netflix” presentation featuring appearances from celebrity guests Tina Fey, Ben Affleck, John Mulaney and the Duffer brothers, the streamer teed up a packed y...
'Emilia Pérez' Is Not a Good Movie January 30, 2025
Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez is the most fascinating movie I’ve watched in the last year, in entirely negative ways. Its 132 minutes unfold like a glittering and garish tour de force of disaster, a relentless procession of terrible ideas, terribly ...
‘Squid Game’ Is Asking Even Darker Questions December 27, 2024
To feel compassion for humanity without lying to yourself about human nature is one of the hardest things you can do. Also one of the most necessary. Compassion tends to make you overlook the worst in people so that you run the risk of caring for the...
‘Squid Game’ Season 2 December 27, 2024
Created by writer/director Hwang Dong-hyuk, the Emmy-winning “Squid Game,” Netflix‘s most-watched series of all time, has returned for a second season. Season 1 of the South Korean survival thriller followed Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), a divorced fa...
The Absurd Genius of Netflix Christmas Films December 23, 2024
Ah, the holidays, that season of sensory delights. A Christmas tree twinkling in the corner, the scent of cinnamon wafting through the air, and on the television, a wholesome, snow-draped fantasy film driven by one pivotal question: What if Frosty th...
Casual Viewing December 17, 2024
Until recently no Hollywood studio had ever released two movies with the same name at the same time. At most studios, such a strategy would be unthinkable. Audiences might accidentally buy tickets to the wrong film, and the PR fallout would be disast...
Culture Slop December 10, 2024
In a recent interview, Tim Robbins said that if you want a picture of moviemaking’s destiny, imagine a mudslide of algorithmic garbage coming out of the streaming-industrial complex and crushing a human brain—forever. “You go on Netflix right now, yo...
2025 Golden Globe Nominations December 10, 2024
The 2025 Golden Globe nominations went their own way, as this infamous awards show does every year. Emilia Perez may have been the subject of social media scorn for the past month, but these voters—who, yes, do tend to forecast a good chunk of Oscar ...
‘Mary’: A Beautiful, Realistic Film about the Blessed Mother December 05, 2024
“You get it.”That’s the message I got a couple of months ago from D. J. Caruso, the acclaimed director of 2007’s Disturbia, and of the new Netflix film Mary. I had heard that Caruso was doing a movie about Mary, and sent him a piece I wrote earlier t...
Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano December 05, 2024
I knew the Amanda Serrano vs. Katie Taylor fight had broken through when people who do not normally follow boxing were asking what I thought of the fight. At the Miami Book Fair, I had way more conversations about boxing than I normally do at a liter...
In Defense of the Hot Rabbi October 17, 2024
Netflix’s newest chart-topper, Nobody Wants This, is about a gorgeous sex podcaster who falls for a charming rabbi. What’s not to love? Here is a highly accessible story featuring Jews that is not about escaping an insular ultra-Orthodox community to...
'Detroiters' Is One of the Best Sitcoms of the Decade October 16, 2024
Tim Robinson’s ascent to the highest echelons of comedy stardom is one of the more unexpected and gratifying cultural developments of recent years. Robinson’s Netflix series I Think You Should Leave premiered in 2019 and became an out-of-left-field, ...
Ryan Murphy’s Latest Era of Cynical Hits October 10, 2024
Ryan Murphy’s true-crime series seldom drop without a splash. Shows like “American Crime Story” and “Monster” have their own gravitational pull, and so their revisionism matters. “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” is no exception: it recent...
The Ringmaster’s Final Bell September 30, 2024
Vince McMahon has long been pro wrestling's most compelling character, both on screen and off. Now, as the 78-year-old faces what may be his final reckoning, Netflix's documentary series Mr. McMahon offers an at-times intimate portrait of a strange, ...
Nicole Kidman Gives Us What We Want September 27, 2024
If you’ve watched more than a handful of movies over the past few years, you’ve undoubtedly seen a disconcerting ad for AMC Theatres, extolling not only that company but the beauty of the movies more broadly. It’s called “We Make Movies Better,” and ...
The Past, Present, and Future of Joey Chestnut September 20, 2024
Today is not the Fourth of July. That is both a fact and a feeling during Netflix’s live broadcast of Chestnut Vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef. (Perfect title, wouldn’t change a pun, or should I say bun—I’m so sorry.) The date, or lack thereof, should...
The Mormon TikTok Moms Are All of Us September 19, 2024
It makes a lot of sense that the lives of popular TikTok stars would serve as irresistible fodder for reality television. The combination of attention-courting, attractive-looking subjects experiencing sudden, tenuous fame, and the tensions that aris...
'Slow Horses' Is the Spy Drama With Everything September 06, 2024
Apple reinvented personal computing in the 1980s, and then again in the 2000s. It created a vast array of hot little rectangles that we carry everywhere with us, which—depending on who you ask—are either connecting or degrading the social lives of mi...
The Universe Is Not a Fairy Tale September 03, 2024
“Two possibilities exist,” physicist and science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke once wrote. “Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” Chinese science-fiction author Liu Cixin begs to differ. In his mind-bendin...
The Esoteric Wokeness of ‘Ancient Aliens’ September 02, 2024
The History Channel series Ancient Aliens, which will soon conclude its 20th season, pioneered an increasingly influential brand of pseudo-history, also on display in the recent Netflix production Ancient Apocalypse. Both shows gain their appeal simu...
The State of the Netflix Standup Special August 30, 2024
It can be hard to tell, these days, what some people mean by “comedy.” By the evidence of the work that comedians are doing, jokes may have dropped out of the definition. Like other performers in our Balkanized, make-your-own-prime-time-entertainment...
