The Wheel of Time has the potential to be great, but for now, good enough will have to do.

Three entertainments that left a mark in 2021.

Sean Baker’s Red Rocket asks why we keep falling for charming but horrible rogues.

The Gossip Girl reboot features a teacher villain among boring teenagers to shockingly bad effect.

HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls is a window into our cynical, burned-out culture.  

In the missing episode, the Simpsons visit Tiananmen square and see a placard that says, ‘Tien An Men Square: on this site, in 1989, nothing happened.’

The Harder They Fall – a terrific film – is an utterly conventional Western, almost to the point of cliché.

No matter how hard they try, people who tell stories for a living inevitably wind up producing tales with popular conservative characters and conservative themes.

In its latest season, American Horror Story turns one of the worst modern ills into a macabre metaphor.

Is Isaac Asimov’s Foundation both a model for how society should be saved and proof that Rod Dreher is right? Not exactly.

Despite its flaws, David Lynch’s Dune is fittingly weird in parts but overall fails to fully capture the greatness — and weirdness — of the book.

The Tragedy of Macbeth is straight-up glory-of-cinema filmmaking, and at 66, Joel Coen continues to be one of his field’s creative leaders.

As many times as Muhammad Ali’s story has been told, it will never be told better than in the enthralling eight-hour Ken Burns documentary.

Family dynamics and kinetic fight scenes combine for another impressive effort in Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

The first Candyman was better, but the second one has its merits as well.

People are not mere tools. Not for entertainment, and not for propaganda.

Turner Classic Movies erases a work of genius and film history.

Isabelle Huppert embodies the new Europe’s ethnic humor and guilt.

Deplorables and Neanderthals, still irredeemable in Matt Damon’s latest action film

Ghosbusters: Afterlife appears to have a better shot at greatness than 2016’s misbegotten reboot, if its official trailer is any indication.