Playacting for journalists standing in an unruly huddle just off camera, Trump asked questions of the oilmen, wondering how soon they could suck the ground under Venezuela dry. “And you’re very much set up for the heavy oil, right?” he asked at one point. There was an implicit cruelty behind the exercise. He wanted the … Read more
Kyle Buchanan, our awards season columnist, breaks down the Academy Award nominations for 2026.
I’m a rational person. I grew up in a family of scientists. My dad, who studied the brain, told me when I was a kid that Santa and God didn’t exist. (Don’t say anything at school, he suggested.) My uncle, a molecular biologist, delivered impromptu poolside lectures on the recombinatory power of DNA. But my … Read more
In recent years, Noche Flamenca, New York’s finest flamenco troupe, has been taking inspiration from the art of Francisco Goya. The company’s aesthetic of bare-bones authenticity and banked-fire passion matches the painter’s dark candor. Situations and moods from Goya prompt and color the troupe’s usual loose collections of ensemble numbers and solos for its excellent … Read more
Rev displays the rhetorical power, leavened with humor and warmth, of a skilled public speaker, but many others are charismatic, too. There’s Deborah Cosey, the first Black member of the Pilgrimage Garden Club—who says that the garden clubs had long been “slaps in the face to the African American community”—and the owner of an antebellum … Read more
Wes Anderson (“The Phoenician Scheme”) Ryan Coogler (“Sinners”) Kleber Mendonça Filho (“The Secret Agent”) Josh Safdie (“Marty Supreme”) First, the legally required boilerplate: by definition, the best movie of the year is the one that’s directed the best. Last year, I made the case for separating the two honors for the pleasure of spreading the … Read more
One of the promotional images for the film “Two People Exchanging Saliva” is a black-and-white closeup of a woman, her face bruised, her nose bleeding, her eyes slack with ecstasy. What are we to make of the feelings that this woman stirs in us: the reflexive response of distress, and then a more cultivated, and … Read more
In the new Ryan Murphy horror thriller “The Beauty,” a virus turns its hosts into perfect physical specimens overnight. Men wake up with rippling biceps, Hawaiian-roll abs, and the kind of jawline even other men notice. Women emerge youthful and thin (of course), with Disney-princess eyes and movie-star lips. A biotech C.E.O. named Byron Forst … Read more
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This is Obomsawin’s take on Kaspar Hauser, a nineteenth-century German man who claimed to have grown up in a dark cellar, without any human contact. We meet him as a Gumby-like figure, asleep on a dirt floor, with only a jug of water and a toy horse. He has no idea how he got there. … Read more