Richard Jewell Is Eastwood’s History of the Future
Mining the past, with sensitivity, he sheds light on the show-trial hysteria of today.
Books, Arts & Manners
The Shocking Right-Wing Tinge of Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood
Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt to hippies: ‘Say hello to my little friend.’
A Film for All Christians
Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life is a cinematic monument of Christian apologetics.
Vampire Weekend Makes the Best Pop-Political Album of the Year
Father of the Bride features the Beltway lyric ‘Wicked snakes inside a place you thought was dignified.’
Hail the Romcom Masterpiece
If “cheesy” means false, contrived, cheap, and tawdry, Love Actually is the opposite of all these things.
A Feeble Fox News Attack at the Movies
Everything interesting in Bombshell has not only been covered, we’re all sick of hearing about most of it.
Clint Eastwood’s Messy, Nuanced Triumph
Richard Jewell succeeds by honoring the inconvenient complexities of its real-life source material.
Puzzling over Meaning in Winslow Homer’s Kissing the Moon
It’s meant to be disorienting.
Knives Out Takes On the Anti-Immigration Crowd
Rian Johnson has made an annihilation fantasy for the woke white Left.
Books to Buy for Small Children
Here are a few they might not already have.