Though the movie is shot entirely outdoors and largely features people on the move, mostly in the countryside but also in several turbulent city sequences, Ouédraogo (working with three cinematographers) composes images with poise and concentration. Most of the shots, whether with fixed frames or fluid motions, suggest a camera set on a tripod. Although … Read more
For the cover of the March 16, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Barry Blitt portrays President Donald Trump in his latest guise, as a general heading to war in the Middle East. This all comes after years of promising his voters “America First!” and “no more Forever Wars.” Blitt’s cover image shows the President at his … Read more
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As a rheumatologist at Columbia University Medical Center, I routinely care for patients with autoimmune diseases. I’m grateful that, in recent years, biologics such as Humira, Enbrel, and Xeljanz—synthesized molecules designed to target specific immune pathways—have been effective against conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and inflammatory bowel disease. But biologics sometimes don’t work well for … Read more
The script is by Jesse Andrews, who co-wrote the Pixar comedy “Luca” (2021), a sunny tale of youthful self-discovery and the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the human and natural worlds. “Hoppers,” though much unrulier in its construction, is onto something similar. Mabel is a freckle-faced, messy-haired misfit, with a love of nature that she inherited … Read more
The new Netflix series stars Rachel Weisz as a professor whose lust for a younger colleague renews her lust for life itself—and drives her to alarming extremes.
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s imaginative adaptation of the Frankenstein story, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, leaves its premise and its principles undeveloped.
In the director Yuval Sharon’s book “A New Philosophy of Opera,” he reflects on the plight of contemporary artists interpreting classic works, writing, “We can choose to either reinforce a studied and traditionalist view of the piece—as preservation—or we can attempt to liberate the spirit of the music, to present it in a way that’s … Read more
Yasmin van Dorp’s short film depicts beautiful destinations—and the crowds of cell-phone photographers who inundate them.
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Alex Barasch is filling in for Kyle Chayka. Horror is a genre of upstarts. Many of its strangest, most striking films, from “The Night of the Living Dead” to “The Blair Witch Project,” come from first-timers working on shoestring budgets—and these days the first-timers can be found, increasingly, on … Read more