Max is stripping back its prestige offerings and going big on shows like “House Hunters”—a shift decades in the making.

No other show better understands the slippage between who we are in private and who we are in public.

Tina Satter’s film “Reality” on HBO captures the cruelty of the surveillance state.

Over six episodes, “The Rehearsal” becomes a show not about helping people but about its creator’s anxieties and compulsions.

How movies about the political system fell in love with cynicism and messaging

Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Max.… With so much content, why does it feel like there’s nothing to watch?

As Logan and Kendall go to war, it’s impossible to tell good intentions from cynicism and hypocrisy.

The new LeBron James–Looney Tunes crossover movie isn’t just bad. It’s a harbinger of worse to come.

Where the classic masculine detective is an expert in the art of disguise, his female counterpart is genuinely part of the furniture—especially if she’s of a certain age.

The deal between AT&T, Time Warner, and Discovery is just the latest shift toward consolidation as media companies fight hopelessly for market supremacy.

The new HBO series based on Alissa Nutting’s novel is a futuristic, surreal take on an unhealthy relationship.

A new HBO documentary investigates the first family of QAnon

Recent works inspired by his fiction struggle to reckon with his racist fantasies.

From “Fishing With John” to “How to With John Wilson,” the most mesmerizing shows on television are strangely low-key.

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant play a wealthy couple with a nasty secret in the HBO miniseries.

The latest series from Michaela Coel captures the contradictions of trying to make art in an age of corporate dominance.

The Hollywood classic is a soap opera and a war movie smashed together. It’s also really, really racist.

In the new HBO thriller, Wever is a triumph. Why does her character have to spend time loathing her body?

The new HBO show, adapted from Philip Roth’s novel, imagines life under a fascist president.

A new documentary cuts through the myths about the Argentinian soccer star.