Jo Livingstone

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Why adult women—and women’s media—should reconsider their cultural infatuation with teenage girls.

A new documentary pieces together long-lost footage from the past, giving new life to stories that had been forgotten.

Why debating the “feminist” stakes of a movie about American military ideology is a laughable prospect.

A new restoration of Andrei Tarkovksy’s 1979 classic functions as a contemporary parable of environmental politics.

Rachel Kadish’s "The Weight of Ink" is like A.S. Byatt's "Possession," but with more seventeenth-century Judaism.

A personal, historical, and comparative consideration of using public money to support the humanities.

HBO's new Bernie Madoff biopic turns white-collar greed into a mob flick.

The machines dominate the latest installment in the space-horror franchise, taking it in a new thematic direction.

A new documentary about Chris Burden shows the extreme performance artist’s “cuddly” side.

Guy Ritchie’s take on Arthurian legend is silly, yes. But it could be a lot worse.

A new retrospective of Goldie Hawn’s movies shows just why she is one of a kind.

A new conceptual work inters visitor’s secrets in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery.

Through 13 roles and 13 manifestos, Blanchett and director Julian Rosefeldt examine the relationship between life, art, and politics.

The soap vendor plumbs new depths of absurdity with its “feminist” branding.

"RISK," a new documentary from Laura Poitras, follows the WikiLeaks founder for six tumultuous years.

A new show at the Met honors the Comme des Garçons visionary.

Bernie Sanders’s recent abortion controversy has reinvigorated a debate over the role that women play on the left.

On the riots' 25th anniversary, two new documentaries underscore the role that the medium has played in our cultural memory.

The producers of the porn documentary have been accused of handling the identities of several performers with gross recklessness.

The new novel by Leonardo Padura is a multigenerational epic of baseball, religion, and a mysterious Rembrandt painting.