Boots Riley’s audacious sophomore film lacks curiosity about the interior lives of his characters, undermining his political message.By Angelica Jade Bastién
The Boys Butchered Its EndingBy extending its fascination with Homelander to the bitter end, the series fumbled the comics’ more morally complex final act.
Can AI Win Short-Story Prizes Now?A representative from Granta confirmed that its editors did not participate in the selection or editing of the prize-winning stories.
Nemesis Brings the HeatCourtney A. Kemp’s fantastically entertaining new series proves there’s still life, and even originality, to be found in the cops-and-robbers genre.
Putting the ‘Deus’ in AmadeusThe captivating and anachronistic miniseries reconfigures the enmity between composers Salieri and Mozart to transcend the bounds of petty rivalry.
The Post-Trauma Plot Book Is HereRecent works by Avigayl Sharp, Kaveh Akbar, Jamie Hood, and Jen Beagin embrace a more irreverent attitude toward their pain.
Robert Wilson’s Last Voyage: Moby DickIn this rock-musical Melville adaptation at BAM, the late avant-gardist braves forbidden seas and barbarous coasts.
The Boys’s Satire Is Running on FumesThis week’s guest-star gorefest-slash-Supernatural reunion winks so hard it loses sight of the show’s entertainment-industry critique.
Joe Turner’s Come Back, With Power UndimmedIn this production starring Taraji P. Henson and Joshua Boone, the 1910s segment of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle simmers and smolders.
Over Your Dead Body Is Fun Until It Isn’tJason Segel and Samara Weaving are surprisingly convincing as a couple plotting to kill each other in the new action-horror comedy from Jorma Taccone.
Half Man Doesn’t Age WellRichard Gadd’s overstretched Baby Reindeer follow-up devolves from fascinatingly messy to frustratingly didactic as it exits adolescence.
