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Robert Pattinson in The Batman (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Matt Reeves, the director of the latest Batman flick, has built a career making the kinds of movies that...

Zoë Kravitz in Kimi (Courtesy of HBO Max and Warner Bros. Pictures)

What is the cinema of Covid-19? Presumably such a thing will eventually exist, but so...

Bradley Cooper in Nightmare Alley (Kerry Hayes/© 2021 20th Century Studios)

The list of Best Picture nomi­nees for the 2022 Oscars looks al­most like...

Encanto’s Mirabel (© 2021 Disney)

I didn’t intend to review the new Disney movie, Encanto, in this column. I watched it for the first time the way...

Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson in The Lost Daughter (Yannis Drakoulidis/Netflix)

The Lost Daughter, adapted by Maggie Gyllenhaal from an Elena Ferrante novel,...

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When you write a book like The Decadent Society whose core thesis is that a lot of our present crises are overblown, that stagnation and repetition rather than world-historical drama rule our times,...

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Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine (The Weinstein Company)

Like many filmmakers beloved for their transgressiveness, David O. Russell is at his...

Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn (Paramount Pictures) A review of the The King’s Speech and True Grit

They arrive all at once, the year’s serious...