Jojo Rabbit Mocks Other People’s Fanaticism
A childish exercise in self-congratulation: ‘F*** off, Hitler!’
Books, Arts & Manners
Our Shortsighted Addiction to Shaming and Schadenfreude
Living in a world where non-crimes have the same effect as true crimes is especially deranging.
Amid a Revival of Anti-Monopoly Sentiment, a New Book Traces Its History
Matt Stoller’s Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Populism charts the shifts in American attitudes toward corporate consolidation.
Joker: An Honest Treatment of Madness
The depiction of a man’s descent into insanity is alone worth the price of admission.
The Albright-Knox Makes New Moves
The Buffalo museum plans to welcome visitors in a glass-walled ‘living room for the city.’
Alec Baldwin’s Unexpectedly Nuanced Trump Stand-In
In Motherless Brooklyn, Baldwin makes an unintentional case for Trumpism by playing his Trump-like character as an effective leader with a sinister appeal.
Parasite: Antifa Comedy for the Cancel-Culture Era
Bong Joon-ho laughs at family and social ruin.
Joker: A Violent, Noxious Scorsese Rip-Off
A review of Joker.
A Critic’s Critic
On the late Martin Bernheimer.
Big Business Is Not the Enemy of the People
A review of Goliath: The 100-Year War between Monopoly Power and Democracy, by Matt Stoller.