Was This the Best Sundance Narrative Feature Year Ever?
Or has my bad movie radar just improved?
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The Deep End
‘Infinity Pool,’ Brandon Cronenberg’s follow-up to ‘Possessor,’ is a trip
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Dark Word #022: Catriona Ward
Stephen King calls her writing ‘authentically terrifying’
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‘Traitors’ in Our Midst
On Peacock, Alan Cumming hosts a delightful-cheesy social-deduction game show in his ‘Scottish castle’
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Prince Harry, King of Audio
The royal audiobook narration of ‘Spare’ is the secret sauce behind the bestselling nonfiction title in history
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The Real Dahl
New biography offers an unvarnished account of an author’s troubled life
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BFG Podcast #088: ‘The Last of Us,’ ‘Velma,’ ‘House Party,’ and ‘A Man Called Otto’
Our team of critics breaks down the culture
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Straight ‘Women Talking’
Sarah Polley’s beautiful film about the Bolivia Mennonite rape scandal pulls some of its punches
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Critical Mess
Provocative science can’t rescue clunky sci-fi novel by Daniel Suarez
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Old Sitcoms Never Die
The odd returns of ‘Night Court’ and ‘That 70s Show’
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(Almost) Clash of the Trivia Titans
Jeopardy! fans just missed out on a regular-season game for the ages
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Sundance is Alive!
Indie cinema returns, ready for the sniffling crowd
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Maybe This Is The Year Popular Movies Win Oscars Again
Won’t the Academy think of the people who only see one or two movies a year?
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What Price Glee?
Discovery+ documentary about “cursed” TV show should be salacious but is surprisingly vague
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Who’s Afraid of ‘Skinamarink’?
Slow-moving, experimental horror film is like ‘The Blair Witch Project’ crossed with David Lynch’s ‘Inland Empire’
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