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Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind” Reinvents the Heist Movie
[ad_1] One of the joys of reviewing movies is witnessing a longtime filmmaker’s artistic breakthrough, as has happened with Kelly Reichardt. A serious director with a principled world view, she...
“A House of Dynamite” Is a Major Misfire from a Great Filmmaker
[ad_1] Little of this plays to Bigelow’s strengths. She has directed at least one screw-tightening nuclear-crisis movie before, the Soviet-submarine thriller “K-19: The Widowmaker” (2002). But, at her best, she...
Do You Know What I Know?
[ad_1] Take your young kid with you as you commute through Penn Station and you’ll find that you have a lot to explain. Walking through the Long Island Railroad concourse,...
Diane Keaton’s Shadows and Light
[ad_1] In Vanity Fair in 1987, Keaton told Joan Juliet Buck, “I was always pretty religious as a kid, but I had trouble with Jesus early on because I couldn’t...
The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story
[ad_1] I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days...
Harry Bliss’s “Cannonball”
[ad_1] For the cover of the October 20, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Harry Bliss wanted to share a recent experience that filled him with joy. “With apologies to my wife,...
From Life in Prison to the Eras Tour
[ad_1] Still, over time, I earned a reputation. “Joe’s straight,” guys would say, with some mix of mockery and begrudging respect. The prison system assigned each of us a security...
The Erotics of Coreen Simpson
[ad_1] “The face was not important in the history of nude photography,” Simpson said, in an interview not too long ago. And what has Simpson used to obscure the faces...
Art and Life in Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”
[ad_1] Leave it to Richard Linklater to see how, in art, the fundamental things apply. In his two new movies—“Blue Moon,” about the lyricist Lorenz Hart, and “Nouvelle Vague,” about...
Misty Copeland’s Ballet Send-Off
[ad_1] Sometimes a return is also a farewell. Misty Copeland, the first Black female principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, may be the most famous American ballerina of her generation,...
