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FILM
In “Kinds of Kindness,” Living Spaces Are Designed to Reveal Cruelty

The latest feature film from director Yorgos Lanthimos reverses course from the topsy-turvy...

FILM
Harmony Korine’s High-Octane Aggro Dr1ft Gets Heated

Shot entirely in thermal cameras from NASA, the cult director’s acid-soaked film debuted in a...

FILM
Dazzling Public Bathrooms Star in Wim Wenders’ Latest Film

The art-house filmmaker has turned his lens on an unlikely muse: Tokyo’s public toilets.

FILM
The Obscure Ceramist Crucial to Saltburn’s Story

Director Emerald Fennell smartly employs the resplendent, ultra-rare pottery of Bernard Palissy as...

FILM
Hayao Miyazaki’s Solemn Swan Song

“The Boy and the Heron,” the Studio Ghibli auteur’s purported final film, shines an...

FILM
Without Makeup Prosthetist Kazu Hiro, There Is No “Maestro”

At the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, Hiro and producer Kristie Macosko Krieger pulled back the...

FILM
The Deeper Meaning of Priscilla’s Candy-Colored Scenography

Sofia Coppola’s latest film, an adaptation of Priscilla Presley’s memoir, lives up to the...

FILM
The Irreducible Robert Irwin Comes Into Full View

A documentary about the Light and Space pioneer reveals, eccentricities and all, the inner workings

ART
The World Still Hasn’t Caught Up to John Waters

A newly opened retrospective at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures highlights six decades of the

ART
Ukrainian Painter Pazza Pennello Remains Unshaken

One of the Odessa-born artist’s pop-inflected canvases embodies the tranquil resilience radiating

FILM
The Broad-Strokes Approach of “Paint” Blurs Bob Ross’s Legacy

Owen Wilson stars as a Bob Ross knock-off in Paint, a film that taps into the late TV painter’s...

FILM
London’s Grenfell Tragedy Gets the Steve McQueen Treatment

Captured in a helicopter six months after the deadly fire, the director’s eerily silent footage...

FILM
The Shockingly Dramatic Origin Story of Tetris

A new thriller on Apple TV+ chronicles the turbulent origins of Tetris, the addictively simple...

Film
Willem Dafoe’s Latest Nemesis is Hostile Architecture

In the newly released film 'Inside', the beloved character actor destroys museum-quality art and...

FILM
M3gan, a Style Icon and Cautionary Tale

An overnight pop culture phenomenon, the murderous doll’s meticulously constructed wardrobe and...