Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first episode of Netflix’s larkish dramedy “Mo” reveals exactly what its title character, Mohammed Najjar, is capable of. He’s camped out in a parking lot, peddling “authentic bootlegs”—faux designer sunglasses,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Richard BrodyStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Frederick Wiseman…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1970, six years into Brazil’s military dictatorship, Rubens Paiva, a civil engineer and a former left-wing politician, returned to the country after years of self-imposed exile. Not long after setting…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Simplicity can prove as enigmatic as complexity. The new Chinese film “This Woman” (which opens Friday at Metrograph), the first feature by Alan Zhang, offers a straightforward story that’s made intricate…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In 1968, a young Michael Crichton, still a student at Harvard Medical School, sent a manuscript to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Rizoo.” When the filmmaker Azadeh Navai was five years old, her mother took her to have her photo taken for an I.D. And, before she knew it, a scarf was…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the French director Catherine Breillat’s film “Fat Girl,” from 2001, two adolescent sisters go on summer holiday with their parents near the seaside. The older sister, Elena, is thin, beautiful,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the February 3, 2025, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson captured the emotion he experienced when, walking downtown, he startled a flock of pigeons. “I felt that a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In an 1818 lecture, on the subject of “Hamlet,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge had this to say: Persons conversant in deeds of cruelty contrive to escape from conscience by connecting something of…