“The truth is a wobbly thing,” according to Wolf. He is the title character of Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play, but he isn’t the central one. That’s Jeenu, a six-year-old boy…

Nikyatu Jusu’s film Nanny carries a premise full of potential: Aisha (Anna Diop) is a former teacher from Senegal hired as a nanny for the daughter of Amy (Michelle Monaghan)…

The Music Woman: “Shy” reviewed Unfair or not, Mary Rodgers, whose father, Richard Rodgers, helped pioneer the Broadway musical alongside Oscar Hammerstein and Lorenz Hart, was a nepo baby. But…

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s popular book Daisy Jones and the Six was a literary blast from the past, a fictional oral history of a drugs-and-sex-fueled rock band from the 1970s that…

Natey Jones gives a star-making turn in The Harder they Come, a new musical adaptation (there have been several earlier attempts) of the 1972 film that brought Jimmy Cliff and…

It has been a half-decade since New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey charted the horrific crimes of Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein, helping give birth to the #MeToo…

The works of Yiyun Li don’t only address the darkest of areas – grief, loss, sadness – but also deal with them in the deepest of ways. So, too, does…

Jessica Chastain dares you – but to do what? Nearly 150 years ago, Nora Helmer left her husband with a door slam heard round the world, inspiring innumerable analyses of…

There’s no way around it: Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) is a bad, bad boy. That’s the fun in watching the series You, initially based on Caroline Kepnes’ novels. That’s the…

Seventy-five years ago today, Fred Zinnemann’s The Search was released in theaters. It’s the story of a young Auschwitz survivor and his mothe,r who search for each other across post-World…