The deliberate, delightful excesses of her new rom-com show on Netflix

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest is a masterful, satirical horror tale of a shameless online scammer and the vengeance wreaked by ever-growing numbers of his unhappy customers.

The director’s latest is a none-too-subtle depiction of Covid hysteria, racial justice protests, isolation, and the rottenness of social media—and how they combine to rip apart the fabric of a small town.

The Cycles of American History foresaw American voter dealignment, and an electronic age that would see voters prioritize personality over party—but it didn’t anticipate Trump.

Street vending has become a necessary alternative for many to make ends meet, forging a sense of solidarity while reinforcing inequities.

Highly conscious of its critics, the show seems to acknowledge last season’s missteps—while its main characters face up to uncertain professional and personal futures.

The turbulent late ’60s saw the technique’s popularity explode—and it’s been helping moviemakers (and literary artists) engage with the unsettling tempos of modern life ever since.

How FDR invented national security, and why Democrats need to move on from it

Women’s basketball is bigger than it’s ever been on television, and the player’s association is taking advantage of the spotlight to tell a gripping story about labor.

Alice Bolin’s essay collection, Culture Creep, interrogates the preoccupation with 2000s-era icons and aesthetics—and how it prevents us from engaging with their more noxious elements.

The Möbius Book explores love, faith, and cliché—​but its experiments in form don’t live up to their promise.

Is MLM a massive scam or an all-American business tradition—or both?

The filmmaker’s follow-up to Past Lives is cerebral and frank about wealth and romance.

Charlottesville reaches into Virginia’s past to trace the currents that led to the violent neo-Nazi rally.

In Things in Nature Merely Grow, the Chinese-American author writes past grief’s clichés.

William F. Buckley Jr. was the erudite heart of American conservatism. But the political vision that he helped forge was—and remains today—focused less on adhering to principles and more on ferreting out enemies.

It’s also a rollicking not-quite thriller about family, financing, and (broadly) filmmaking itself.

Tracing the leftist icon’s influence on the history of the United States

In the second season of the HBO docu-comedy series, the airline cockpit is the stage for an ambitious investigation into how the roles we choose to play can entrap or liberate.

A psychoanalyst trains her attention on the act of breathing, and it no longer seems quite so simple.