The Real Housewives of Jane Austen
Why do reality television’s most popular stars so uncannily resemble the heroines of the 19th-century writer’s work?
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Abramorama The Message of Newtown: Please Don't Forget
Kim Snyder’s documentary examines how a community can even begin to recover in the wake of unspeakable tragedy.
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Netflix Max Richter’s Soundtrack to Dystopia
The British composer describes how he creates scores for film and television projects like The Leftovers, Black Mirror, and Morgan.
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Amazon Studios Good Girls Revolt Shows How Far We Haven’t Come
The new Amazon series about a landmark 1970 workplace-equality lawsuit puts a sharp focus on the stunted progress of the last five decades.
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Netflix Black Mirror’s ‘Men Against Fire’ Tackles High-Tech Warfare
The fifth episode of the new season features American soldiers fighting mysterious mutants.
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Netflix Black Mirror’s ‘Shut Up and Dance’ Is a Horrifying Thriller
The third episode of the new season is one of the most disturbing of the series.
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Netflix Black Mirror’s ‘Nosedive’ Skewers Social Media
Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, the episode is set in a world where everyone is ranked out of five.
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Universal Pictures The Girl on the Train Is a Missed Opportunity
This adaptation of a hit 2015 thriller veers right off track.
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Netflix Amanda Knox and the 21st-Century Witch Hunt
A new Netflix documentary unpacks how a 20-year-old college student from Seattle got painted as a twisted, sexually deviant murderer.
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Bleecker Street Denial Is a Drama for the Misinformation Age
The movie dramatizes the 2000 libel case brought by a British holocaust denier against an American academic.
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Amazon Studios Fleabag Is the Filthy Antiheroine TV Deserves
The six-part Amazon series about a dysfunctional, lovable British heroine is painfully funny and painful all at once.
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Universal Pictures The Glorious Return of Bridget Jones
The third film about the British everywoman is sharp, well-written, and extremely funny.
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Love Productions The Great British Break-Up
Why is the most popular U.K. television show in decades falling apart?
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Alvaro Dominguez Please Turn On Your Phone in the Museum
Cultural institutions learn to love selfies, tailor-made apps, and social media.
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Picador / Jessica Spilos / Zachary Bickel / ... Cautionary Tales From the Future
Alexander Weinstein’s collection of short stories, Children of the New World, presents a bleak, brilliant view of humanity fully in technology’s thrall.
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Lucie Cipolla / Netflix Is Food the Greatest Art Form of All?
The Netflix documentary series Chef’s Table: France explores the impulse to create culinary works of genius.
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David Gray / Reuters The Glorious Drama of the U.S. Swim Team
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, the antics outside the pool have rivaled the events themselves.
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Neil Hall / Reuters Harry Potter and the Curse of Continuation
The newly published script of Jack Thorne’s play is a compelling read but an uncomfortable fit within J.K. Rowling’s series.
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Fox Searchlight Pictures Absolutely Fabulous and the Curse of the Endless Party
Over its two-decade history, the British comedy has made an absurd comic spectacle out of the inevitability of women aging.
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Sony Was 2016 Ready for an All-Female Ghostbusters?
A tentpole action movie starring women is remarkably forward-thinking given that so many films still fail the Bechdel test.
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Katy vs. Britney: Can Either Redeem Pop in 2016?
New music from both singers dropped unexpectedly on Thursday night.
