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July 15, 2026
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Leaves the Gods in the Outtakes
The director’s Homer adaptation presents a modern, relatable Odysseus, rather than trying to understand the ancient world on its own terms.
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July 10, 2026
“Remake,” Reviewed: The Film Confronts a Father’s Grief and a Filmmaker’s Responsibility
The documentarian Ross McElwee’s new feature is an anguished reflection on the life and death of his son, Adrian, who was a frequent subject of his films.
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July 10, 2026
Mark Morris’s Summer Season
Also: France in Westchester at Caramoor, a taut “Henry VI,” Djo’s pop-rock spark, and more.
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July 9, 2026
Éric Rohmer’s Novel “Élisabeth” Is a Precocious Literary Triumph
Before he had any interest in movies, Rohmer was a writer, and his 1946 début is a fine-grained vision of small-town lives in prewar France.
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June 27, 2026
“Couture,” Reviewed: Angelina Jolie Faces Trouble with Style
The new melodrama, starring Jolie as a movie director, treats the Paris fashion world as a backdrop for medical and domestic crises.
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June 26, 2026
The Artistry of Tarot
Also: the modern reggae of Original Koffee, Tina Fey’s modern take on “The Four Seasons,” Hugh Jackman’s gory Robin Hood, and more.
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June 21, 2026
A Lonely Adolescent Summer, Set to “Bad Moon Rising”
To an eleven-year-old in a Long Island suburb, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 hit sounded like it came from somewhere distant, deep, and haunted.
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June 19, 2026
The Dance Legend Lucinda Childs’s “Momentary Reprise”
Also: the images of Yves Saint Laurent, “Girl, Interrupted” reviewed, the fusionist wonderland of Tortoise, and more.
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June 16, 2026
In “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg Steps Out from Behind the Curtain
This tale of aliens on Earth and the coverup of their presence, starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, is a catalogue of the director’s obsessions, and a deeply personal vision.
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June 12, 2026
“Mudville,” Reviewed: An Atlanta Filmmaker’s Expansive D.I.Y. Family Drama
Adam Pinney made his new movie for an estimated five hundred dollars, and cast his own wife and kids.
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June 12, 2026
A Wondrous Array of Boundary Pushers at SummerStage
Also: Lucy Sante’s poignant humor, American Ballet Theatre’s summer season, the incisive melodrama of Satyajit Ray, and more.
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June 5, 2026
“The Little Sister,” Reviewed: an Intellectual Yet Passionate Coming-Out Drama
Nadia Melliti, in her début role, offers a quietly spectacular performance as a French teen-ager who struggles with her forbidden attraction to women.
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June 5, 2026
Cowboy Heaven, in MOMA’s Westerns Series
Also: the third-wave emo of Jimmy Eat World, Jean Genet’s “The Maids” TikTokified, Rachel Syme’s shoe of the summer, and more.
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May 29, 2026
“Greater New York” Takes the Pulse of the City
Also: the megawatt hip-hop of Baby Keem, the buzzy period reimaginings of Scottish Ballet, the time-capsule documentary “With Hasan in Gaza,” and more.
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May 29, 2026
“Power Ballad,” Reviewed: A Bromantic Conflict Over a Hit Song
In John Carney’s dramedy, a thwarted songwriter, played by Paul Rudd, crosses paths with a former boy-band star in search of new material.
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May 26, 2026
The Revolutionary Force of Sonny Rollins
In a career that spanned more than sixty years, the legendary jazz saxophonist’s name became synonymous with the art itself—and he never stopped pushing the genre forward.
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May 22, 2026
“I Love Boosters,” Reviewed: A Socialist-Surrealist Shoplifting Fantasy
Boots Riley’s new film is an exuberantly inventive but overstretched comedy about the redistribution of luxury goods.
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May 22, 2026
Summer Culture Preview
What’s coming this season in TV, theatre, music, movies, dance, and art.
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May 15, 2026
The Surrealist Blues Poet aja monet’s Jazzy New Album
Also: Joan Semmel’s revolutionary nudes, Aleshea Harris’s film adaptation of “Is God Is,” Rachel Syme on thrift markets galore, and more.
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May 13, 2026
The Hollow Trickery of “The Wizard of the Kremlin”
Olivier Assayas’s adaptation of a novel about a fictionalized adviser to Vladimir Putin reduces politics to personalities and atrocities to anecdotes.
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May 1, 2026
“Heated Rivalry” and Its Wine-Mom Fans Reunite
Plus: the radiant pop of MUNA, the visceral paintings of Juanita McNeely, a “Beaches” musical, and more.
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April 30, 2026
“Two Pianos” Turns Modern Melodrama Old-Fashioned
Arnaud Desplechin’s vigorous tale of a pianist’s return home to a mentor and an ex-lover lines up its characters’ traits like dominoes, and ignores the world they live in.
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April 24, 2026
Oneohtrix Point Never’s Sense of the Uncanny
Also: Sarah Larson’s latest podcast picks, “The Rocky Horror Show” and “The Balusters” on Broadway, the French singer Oklou, and more.
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April 23, 2026
“Michael,” Reviewed: A Sanitized Bio-Pic That’s All Business
The new movie details the backstage maneuvers that catapulted Michael Jackson to stardom but leaves his personal life out of the picture.
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April 21, 2026
The History of Jazz Has Instantly Expanded
Newly released archival live performances by Ahmad Jamal, Joe Henderson, and Cecil Taylor illuminate their legacies and the art form at large.
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