Review: “Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America” Leaves Kindness In Its Wake The latest HBO documentary highlights the peaceful, green practice of alternative funerals.
TV Younger Recap: “Millennial’s Next Top Model” Delivers Bad Press The company is hit hard in the wake of Liza's "outing".
TV The Righteous Gemstones Review: Show, Don’t Televangelism Danny McBride's latest collaboration with Jody Hill and David Gordon Green doesn't quite keep the faith.
Filmmaker of the Month Where’d You Go, Bernadette Review: A whimsical mid-life crisis Richard Linklater's latest removes the mystery from the Marie Semple novel, but ends up a flawed but welcome reflection on aging and creativity.
Good Boys Review: Kids Say the Raunchiest Things Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky's edgy tween comedy finds an unexpected sweetness among the swears.
The Peanut Butter Falcon Review: Navigating Disability With Grace It's a little Sundance-y, but Tyler Wilson and Michael Schwarz craft a smart, balanced indie that avoids the usual pitfalls of the way movies tend to treat disability.
Blinded by the Light Review: Moved by Mighty, Mighty Boss Tones Gurinder Chadha's heartwarming tale of a boy and The Boss fumbles some chords, but charms nonetheless.
TV Succession Recap: Season Two Regroups at “The Summer Palace” HBO's cuttingly dark upper-crust family drama carves new depths of capitalist depravity in the season premiere.
Features Issues Are the New Black: “Orange Is the New Black”’s Final Season Doubles Down on Injustice In a year of TV series reaching their much-vaunted conclusions, Orange Is the New Black went out with a seventh season filled with drum-banging polemic.
Filmmaker of the Month The Daring Ambiguity of the “Before” Trilogy Linklater's Before Trilogy - Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight - is an eye-catching crystallization of how relationships change over time.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 Review: Leave After “Hair Love” It may be prefaced by a brilliant, heartfelt short, but Sony Pictures Animation's latest, like its adaptation, is a huge waste of time.
Features The Double Nostalgia of Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused” Richard Linklater's 1993 coming-of-age classic is a battle of dueling, complicated nostalgias around '60s youth culture.
TV Review: “Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling” Goes Post-Modern Netflix brings back the classic Nick cartoon twenty years later for a one-off special filled with heart and surprisingly complicated musings on the passage of time.
The Kitchen Review: Female-Led Heist Film Cooks Up Mediocre Thrills Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss can't quite spice up the underdone intrigue of this '70s-set comic book adaptation.
Podcasts Jacob Yoffee and Roahn Hylton on Scoring Social Justice in Amazon’s “Free Meek” The composers of Amazon's new docuseries talk about Meek Mill, their contrasting styles, and the challenges of documentary scoring.
TV Younger Recap: “The Debu-taunt” Reveals Pauline Is The Ultimate Villain Liza's secrets are laid out for the world to see thanks to Charles' vengeful ex-wife.
TV “GLOW” Nails Its Third Season Spots As the Gorgeous Ladies grow apart, the show itself is more confident and sure-footed than ever.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Review: Spinning Tales of American Woe A late-summer adaptation of the Alvin Schwartz stories turns out to be one of the year's biggest surprises in horror.
Changing the Game Review: Transitioning to Fairer Play Michael Barnett's doc is an inspiring, eye-opening look at the complicated, often painful world of transgender high school athletes.
“The Sixth Sense” & the Weight of Childhood Trauma Haley Joel Osment's gripping performance elevated M. Night Shyamalan's second feature to a horror masterpiece.
Should You Be in Here Watching That?: A Look at “24 Hour Party People” Michael Winterbottom's loving tribute to the Manchester music scene still maintains its quirky-cool vibe.