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December 5, 2018
Alex Shephard
Netflix Won’t Save Prestige Cinema
The streaming service desperately wants to win a Best Picture Oscar. But its foray into costly, artistic films is about more than just respect.
November 15, 2018
Jo Livingstone
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Is the Coen Brothers’ Odd Paean to the Western
An anthology in six parts, the latest from the Coens features a singing horse, sweeping vistas, and a lot of death.
October 31, 2018
Rachel Syme
How Netflix Made The Haunting of Hill House Less Scary
The show based on Shirley Jackson’s novel ultimately shies away from the book’s raw horror.
October 9, 2018
Jo Livingstone
In Maniac, the Human Mind Is the Only Real Place
Jonah Hill and Emma Stone star in a radical new Netflix series about madness, friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves to live.
October 1, 2018
Rachel Syme
American Vandal’s Uncanny Portrait of Generation Z
The true crime mockumentary’s second season sharply depicts a world of intensive reputation management.
September 12, 2018
MagazineRachel Syme
BoJack Horseman’s Brilliant Crack-Up
The Netflix show's new season is a darkly funny reckoning with grief.
August 24, 2018
Rachel Syme
The Bold Dreaminess of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before
How a frothy new Netflix movie reinvigorates the high-school rom-com genre
August 2, 2018
Alex Shephard
MoviePass Played by Silicon Valley’s Insane Rules
The company's business model was unsustainable, but that's not why it's struggling. Just ask Uber, Amazon, or Netflix.
July 12, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Sacred Games Reinvents the Police Procedural
Netflix's first Indian original series is a sprawling caper that bleeds into the mystical.
July 10, 2018
Alex Shephard
Is AT&T Going to Ruin HBO?
By following in the footsteps of Netflix, it could undermine what made the network great.
July 3, 2018
Rachel Syme
Nanette Rewrites the History of Art
In her Netflix special, Hannah Gadsby quits the self-deprecating joke.
June 11, 2018
Rachel Syme
How The Staircase Defined True Crime Series
With new episodes on Netflix, the show has followed the drawn-out workings of justice over several years.
May 23, 2018
Alex Shephard
What Netflix’s Obama Deal Says About the Future of Streaming
In the 1990s, HBO disrupted entertainment by proclaiming, "It's not TV, it's HBO." In 2018, Netflix is taking the opposite approach.
May 11, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Something Is Damp in the State of Denmark
Netflix's new horror series "The Rain" makes a mess of a genuinely scary premise.
May 2, 2018
Alex Shephard
Inside Amazon Prime’s Price Hike
How a $20 bump plays into the Everything Store's quest for world domination
April 24, 2018
Alex Shephard
Can Netflix Take Over Hollywood?
The streaming service is producing more content than ever. The problem is that a lot of it is mediocre.
April 9, 2018
Alex Shephard
Will Hollywood Ever Make Another Children of Men?
An interview with Ben Fritz, whose “The Big Picture” explores the way the franchise model and streaming services have disrupted the film industry.
April 3, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Systems Overload
"Collateral," a new police procedural on Netflix, broods over the refugee crisis.
March 27, 2018
Win McCormack
Outside the Limits of the Human Imagination
What the new documentary “Wild, Wild Country” doesn’t capture about the magnetism and evil of the Rajneesh cult
February 14, 2018
Adrian Daub
What Babylon Berlin Sees in the Weimar Republic
A new police procedural set in interwar Germany holds a warning for today’s audiences.

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