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Mausoleum of Dreams
Oliver Evans reviews Will Sloan’s new biography “Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA.”
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers
The Lucas Museum and the Question of Narrative Art
Leo Braudy proposes a historical and aesthetic rationale for George Lucas’s Museum of Narrative Art.
Certain, but Not Final
Winnie Wang reviews Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s debut feature “The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire.”
Televising Decline
Elizabeth Alsop reviews “The Studio,” “The Franchise,” and other recent industry satires.
Nature Red (40) in Tooth and Claw
Alison Laurence reviews “Jurassic World Rebirth” in the context of de-extinction developments.
Preferring the Company of Parrots and Dogs
Nolan Kelly watches two movie adaptations of Sigrid Nunez novels, “The Room Next Door” and “The Friend.”
You’re Not Anyone
Winnie Code considers Andrew DeYoung’s debut feature film “Friendship.”
The Common Man Is Coming into His Own
Michael Kobre considers the Fantastic Four superhero “The Thing” and Jack Kirby’s relationship to his own Judaism.
Bringing Back New Concepts to This Mad City
Caroline Hagood explores Jason Weiss’s “Other Lives Our Own,” a collection she hears in spectral conversation with the work of Kendrick Lamar and Agnès Varda.
In a Language Beyond What Is Given
Tia Glista watches Eva Victor’s directorial debut, “Sorry, Baby.”
Dress It Up with Reality
Amelia Anthony aims to separate the art from the artist while reading James Miller’s “The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films.”
Some Women Want to Wear It
Soraya Sebghati outlines a canon of 21st-century Iranian film.
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