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The 2026 Oscar Nominations and What Should Have Been Picked
Wes Anderson (“The Phoenician Scheme”) Ryan Coogler (“Sinners”) Kleber Mendonça Filho (“The Secret Agent”) Josh Safdie (“Marty Supreme”)…
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“The Beauty” Is a Hot Mess
In the new Ryan Murphy horror thriller “The Beauty,” a virus turns its hosts into perfect physical specimens overnight. Men wake up with…
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Donald Trump, Drama Queen
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Reading for the New Year: Part Four
This is Obomsawin’s take on Kaspar Hauser, a nineteenth-century German man who claimed to have grown up in a dark cellar, without any…
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A Début Novel About the Quest for Eternal Youth
Cash’s dialogue is the novel’s greatest trick. It’s blunt, even a little wooden, yet she wields it with a quicksilver touch, creating…
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An Artist Seeks Reinvention by Living Off the Grid in “Far West”
Lala Abaddon doesn’t have an address. Her home, made from scratch, sits off a rocky road, deep in the desert mountains of the American…
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Adrian Tomine’s “Post-Vacation”
For the cover of the January 26, 2026, issue, the cartoonist Adrian Tomine depicted a scene that New Yorkers often encounter in the depths…
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The Cold Comfort of a Helene Schjerfbeck Painting
In 1883, Schjerfbeck travelled to Brittany, where her first coup of ingenuity arrived, with paintings like “Clothes Drying” (1883) and…
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How to Kill a Fish
A full week later, when I unwrapped the bonito fillets that Yamasaki had sent me home with, I was amazed to find the skin undiminished,…
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Helen, Help Me: On the Phenomenology of Cheeseburgers
A New Yorker food critic answers questions about burger toppings, beef tallow, and the subjectivity of memory. Source link
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Acts of Self-Destruction
Friedkin’s film sucked much of the humor and twisted romance from the play, I realized, treating it as straight horror. Although I have…
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Bob Weir’s Feral Radiance
Although Weir was a serious person it was easy to make him laugh. He made you feel when you were with him that he had no other place to…
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Erich von Stroheim’s Spectacular Art Is Back
As Steuben, Stroheim assumed a military bearing and status that he’d never approached in his actual Army days. The performance style that…
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Nia DaCosta Injects New Blood Into “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple”
In “The Bone Temple,” the full extent of Jimmy’s evil is revealed early on. So, too, is the range of O’Connell’s screen villainy, no less…
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With the Podcast “I’ve Had It,” Jennifer Welch Goes “Dark Woke” on Politics
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The Mental Pratfalls of Anne Gridley, in “Watch Me Walk”
Also: Jodie Foster’s new movie, New York City Ballet’s winter season, music inspired by the poetry of the Black Arts Movement, and more.…
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A President with His Finger on the Nation’s Pulse
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Zach Bryan’s Stubborn, Shaggy New Album
In 2019, it seemed possible that the next big country star would be a Navy aviation ordnanceman from Oklahoma named Zach Bryan, who…
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In Two Films About Palestinian Struggle, Time Is of the Essence
Dabis’s diagrammatically structured screenplay is built on clear historical parallels and tidy intergenerational contrasts. A young boy…
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Grok and the A.I. Porn Problem
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. Shortly after Elon Musk purchased Twitter, in…
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“The Chronology of Water” Is an Extraordinary Directorial Début
But get away Lidia does, and, finally free of paternal authority, she’s out of control: drinking and taking drugs, partying hard, flunking…
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How to Recover from Caring Too Much
In Clayton’s and Josephson’s hands, though, the fawn response becomes something more pliable, less a sign of acute threat than a broadly…
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Flynn McGarry’s Artful, Ambitious Next Act
The chef Flynn McGarry was only thirteen years old when he débuted a tasting-menu pop-up in his home town of Los Angeles, in 2012. He was…
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The Delicious Anticipation–and, Yes, Release—of “Heated Rivalry”
The show, a sexy romance between two closeted hockey players, began on a small Canadian streaming platform, but has become a huge,…