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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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April 17, 2026
David Armstrong’s Probing Gaze
Also: Jennifer Tilly in the surreal world of “The Adding Machine,” New York City Ballet’s spring season, Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in “Mother Mary,” and more.
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April 16, 2026
“Mother Mary,” Starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, Reviewed
Anne Hathaway, as a pop star, and Michaela Coel, as a fashion designer, are trapped in the narrow limits of a chamber drama that’s smaller than their personalities.
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April 12, 2026
“Blue Heron” Is an Exalted Drama of Troubled Childhood
Sophy Romvari’s first feature brings keen observation and wondrous imagination to the quasi-autobiographical story of growing up with a brother in crisis.
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April 7, 2026
“The Drama” Is One Long Troll
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are charismatic as a couple confronting the fallout from an appalling revelation, but the film itself seems engineered solely to stimulate discourse.
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April 6, 2026
In “Cinematic Immunity,” the Greatest Drama Is Offscreen
Michael Lee Nirenberg’s oral history of classic New York filmmaking centers on crew members whose labor the movies are made of, and reveals behind-the-scenes passions and tensions that shape the art.
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April 3, 2026
New Directors, New Films
Also: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in “The Drama,” Michael Schulman on spring fabulosity, Rachel Syme on the latest in trenchcoats, and more.
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March 27, 2026
In “Yes,” an Israeli Filmmaker Charges Israel with Self-Satisfied Brutality
Nadav Lapid’s furiously satirical drama, about a musician’s willful complicity in a war he reviles, tells a vast story of personal and national degradation.
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March 27, 2026
Marie Antoinette-Era Fashion Plates, at the Frick
Also: Daniel Radcliffe stars in “Every Brilliant Thing,” Robert Plant sings roots folk in a cathedral, a soulful retrospective of Beuford Smith, and more.
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March 27, 2026
The Unseen Work of One of Iran’s Greatest Filmmakers
For the director Mani Haghighi, his country’s rich cinematic tradition is a family affair.
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March 20, 2026
Elaine Reichek’s Needlepoint Revolution
Also: Ro Reddick’s absurdist “Cold War Choir Practice,” Sofia Coppola’s portrait of Marc Jacobs, Paige Williams on music for spiritual uplift, and more.
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March 16, 2026
As Movies Adapt to the Times, the Oscars Can Only Look On
Doom-laden humor at the 2026 Academy Awards ceremony obscures the courageous innovation of much of the work it celebrated.
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March 6, 2026
“Yam Daabo” Reintroduces a Late, Great Filmmaker
Idrissa Ouédraogo’s first feature, now streaming, is a tense drama of romance amid politics and a striking advance in cinematic form.
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March 6, 2026
Stephen Shore, Ryan McGinley’s Xeroxes in “Hard Copy New York”
Also: Jonathan Richman’s soft touch, Sean Hayes’s liquid charm in the play “The Unknown,” “The Bride!”-related culture picks, and more.
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March 5, 2026
“The Bride!” Exclaims but Never Explains
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s imaginative adaptation of the Frankenstein story, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, leaves its premise and its principles undeveloped.
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February 27, 2026
“What Does That Nature Say to You”: Don’t Meet the Parents
The South Korean director Hong Sangsoo finds high drama and philosophical insights in the chance encounter of a woman’s boyfriend with her family.
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February 27, 2026
Spring Culture Previews—What to Do, See, and Hear This Season
What’s new in theatre, movies, television, art, dance, classical, and contemporary music.
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February 25, 2026
Nonprofessional Actors Are the Heart of the Movies
This year’s leading Oscar contenders are invigorated by performers notable for their personalities and wider-world accomplishments.
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February 20, 2026
Mitski’s Spellbinding Intensity
Also: the actions and art work of Lotty Rosenfeld, mixed-martial-arts sparring in the play “The Monsters,” a cocktail adventure at Oddball, and more.
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February 19, 2026
Raymond Depardon’s Documentary Confrontations with Power
A retrospective at Lincoln Center showcases the French filmmaker’s masterworks of social conflict and inner struggle.
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February 18, 2026
Does “Wuthering Heights” Herald the Revival of the Film Romance?
Emerald Fennell’s new movie may be mediocre, but its popularity demonstrates the strength of a genre that Hollywood has all but abandoned.
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February 17, 2026
Remembering the Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman
In nearly sixty years of nonfiction filmmaking, Wiseman passionately probed the nodal points of political and social power and connected them in a cinematic universe of his own.
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