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The New York TimesCulture
‘Winter of the Crow’ Review: Life in Communist Warsaw
Lesley Manville plays a professor in 1981 who gets swept up in the declaration of martial law in Poland in this slow-burning film.
The New York TimesCulture
‘The Social Reckoning’ Review: Sounding the Alarm
Aaron Sorkin’s latest movie is about how social-media platforms like Facebook have rewired our brains and the larger world.
The New York TimesCulture
‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile’ Review: What Is Truth?
The second half of Julia Loktev’s epic chronicle of independent journalists in Russia is essential viewing.
The New York TimesCulture
‘Misty Green’ Review: An Actor and the Pleas That Drive L.A.
The actor Rosalind Eleazar and the writer-director Chris Rock give us a portrait of struggle in a city of air kisses and transactional fondness.
The New York TimesCulture
‘Matchbox: The Movie’ Review: We Like the Cars That Go Boom
John Cena is in the driver’s seat of this stilted movie adaptation of the Mattel-brand toy cars.
The New York TimesCulture
‘The Beast’ Review: Samuel L. Jackson in the Driver’s Seat
Jackson plays a president under siege from a well-armed militia in this action film where his heavily armored car is hiding a few tricks.
The GuardianCulture
Below review – a killer snot-berg causes chaos for Josh Hartnett
Don your best plaid shirts for this supernatural thriller about a gang of beefy fishermen who tackle sea monsters. It is totally ridiculous – but you will have loads of daft fun Abandon all hope, ye who enter Below. And jettison disbelief while ye be at it. A six-part supernatural thriller forged from industrial-grade…
The GuardianCulture
Agate Head / Stone Soup by Patricia Lockwood review – a gem of a collection
Inspired by stones and metals, the memoirist and novelist’s first poetry collection for more than a decade is charming, whimsical and intimate In the introduction to her first book of poetry in 12 years, Patricia Lockwood states that, “For almost a decade … I had not been able to hear it. The poems that I wrote would…
The GuardianCulture
Big Girls Don’t Cry review – a New Zealand teenager finds herself in tender coming-of-age tale
Writer-director Paloma Schneideman’s wonderful film follows a 14-year-old in 2006 who pretends to be someone else in a chat room, with real-world consequences Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email All coming-of-age films face the challenge of how to convey that intermediary period between childhood and…
The GuardianCulture
Other Worlds Than These by Stephen King and Peter Straub review – a self-indulgent finale to the Talisman trilogy
There are moments of shivering joy as the protagonist of two enduring classics, Jack Sawyer, returns – but this time his journey feels endlessly repetitive Bear with me, because there is some backstory to get through before we can talk about the book I am actually here to review. Back in 1984, Stephen King and Peter…
The GuardianCulture
Contact review – Jonny Donahoe delivers a heated reunion at a bonfire of family photos
Òran Mór, Glasgow Blythe Duff and Mark Barrett are excellent as two people helplessly bound to each other in this bitter two-hander The arrival of a first baby changes everything. It is not just the upheaval of fitting the child into your life: the shift is also psychological. Children become parents. Parents become…
The New York TimesCulture
‘Cupertino’ Review: The People v. A.I.
Robert and Michelle King have taken on law, politics and religion. Their delightful new legal drama suggests that tech might be the final boss.
The GuardianCulture
Robert Ryman review – can your brain handle a show that only has white paintings?
Barbican Art Gallery, London What seem at first indistinguishable canvases offer challenges, revelations and transcendental effects – but only if you can give yourself over to them Writing about painting is a futile exercise at the best of times. This is especially the case when, as with Robert Ryman, the paintings in…
The GuardianWorld
Former Obama official will review Cornell’s handling of sexual misconduct complaints
School trustees appointed Sally Yates to review policies as university grapples with fallout from alleged frat gang rape A former high-ranking Department of Justice official will look at how Cornell handles sexual misconduct complaints, university trustees announced on Tuesday as they tried to address an outpouring of…
The GuardianCulture
The Uprising review – Paul Greengrass turns revolutionary rage into a Robin Hood origin myth
Andrew Garfield’s fictional ploughman joins the historical heroes of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt in a dirt-caked, docudrama-style film with disconcertingly silly moments Paul Greengrass has in fact already made his “uprising” film: United 93 , the gut-wrenching 2006 masterpiece about the passengers onboard United…
The GuardianCulture
As You Like It review – there are no mere players in the RSC’s ravishing all-male escapade
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon With a WWE-style wrestling match, playful eroticism and a fine cast including Hamilton’s Jonathan Groff, this is an exquisite production ‘To liberty, and not to banishment,” exclaims Celia to Rosalind, the exile who finds freedom in her disguise as a man. It is a key…
NPRWorld
Cornell names former acting U.S. attorney general to review rape case
Cornell University names Sally Yates, former acting U.S. attorney general and career federal prosecutor, to lead an independent review into how the school handled a former student's rape allegations.
Ars TechnicaTechnology
Review: Fine, let's talk about Digger
Its excesses may try one’s patience at times, but the film sticks the landing with a savagely moving finale.
The GuardianCulture
The Social Reckoning review – Aaron Sorkin’s jittery sequel with all-new evil puppet Zuckerberg
Jeremy Strong’s slow-talking Facebook founder turns into a cameo, background to a thriller about a whistleblower that somehow never mentions Trump Here is a film for all those people who solemnly deplore social media in conversation but haven’t quite got round to deleting their accounts. Sixteen years have gone by…
