Part of the reason David Cronenberg’s new Maps to the Stars is so engrossing is that it’s two kinds of…Read More

For the past twelve years I’ve volunteered at a crisis pregnancy center serving mainly low-income women in the District of…Read More

The Cosmopolitans, Whit Stillman’s new project about American expats in Paris, is several different kinds of experiment: It’s Stillman’s first…Read More

Gallows humor is one of the most traditional and least savory elements of esprit de corps. For cops, doctors, soldiers,…Read More

In The Brothers Karamazov, after the atheist Ivan has talked for two full chapters—“Rebellion,” the greatest statement of the problem…Read More

Venus in Fur opens like a horror film—more precisely, like a horror-comedy. The camera swoops slowly over rainswept streets toward…Read More

My initial reaction on hearing that Disney was remaking Sleeping Beauty from the point of view of Maleficent was, “Oh…Read More

If We Are the Best! were The Breakfast Club, Allison would make over Claire—and the boys would just be accessories….Read More

I read John Darnielle’s 2011 novel Master of Reality under the unfamiliar constellations of Australia—which was fitting, since the slender book…Read More

I have seen the future, brother, and it is a real bummer. Ahhh, look, X-Men: Days of Future Past could be…Read More