There’s an enigmatic quality to the role of Nolan in the current filmmaking landscape.
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Jane Campion discusses the latest notch in her increasingly notch-heavy belt, her vision of the American West, and more.
Franz Rogowski discusses why he doesn’t feel the need to go overboard in preparing to act out unfamiliar circumstances.
Calling Erykah Badu’s Baduizm a better blueprint than it is an album isn’t meant to diminish its impact.
It’s once again AMPAS’s moment to show what side of history they want to be on.
Feelings are unutterable and intimacy unbearable in the Japan depicted in Kudo Riho’s Let Me Hear It Barefoot.
Trier and his actors discuss finding maturity on and off screen, and how they pulled off the film’s searing centerpiece breakup scene.
Death and childhood haunt Pénélope My Love and Malintzin 17.
Kirby and Leon discuss the roots of their partnership and how they navigated the portrayal of the main character’s sudden amnesia.
Asghar Farhadi discusses his approach to writing complex stories and his understanding of what happens when people tell the truth.
The album helped reshape the pop landscape and the reverberations can still be felt today.
The best film scenes of 2021 prove that the comfort of certainty was at least easy to come by at the movies.
The best music videos of 2021 tackle the themes and concerns of the day with imagination, humor, and skill.
Joe discusses how found his comfort zone outside of his native Thailand, and why he thinks of Memoria as a musical.
Almodóvar discusses his decades-long development of Parallel Mothers’s ideas and how its themes resonate with his other work.
Finding the crux of a Pedro Almodóvar film is not unlike asking how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
The 10 albums on this list provide a dynamic sense of movement and grooves.
The best theater of 2021 hasn’t just been a treat but a privilege to witness.
In 2021, hip-hop continued to be as plentiful as it was multifarious.
This year proved, as always, that one of the most reliable pleasures of cinema-going is great acting.