Two docuseries about NXIVM present a question: Are the people who have escaped a controlling organization the most reliable sources on what happened to them?
And what the AMC black comedy about a British obstetrician illuminates about women’s health
And the play that lays bare Britain’s constructed myths
Sophie Gilbert, Megan Garber, and Hannah Giorgis discuss Hollywood and the way it depicts abortion (or doesn’t).
Penelope Mortimer’s 64-year-old novel is a powerful argument for letting women choose when and whether they become a parent.
Where Lost and Westworld spun out, the Apple TV+ show’s contained world succeeds.
How the brutal Viking blockbuster uses a millennia-old tale to undermine the toxic masculinity of myth.
Ten Percent, a remake of the popular French series Call My Agent, is a surprisingly tender ode to acting.
The show’s second season is more audacious, but also harder to bear.
A new HBO show about Julia Child explores the virtues of ambition—whatever the age.
It’s all too easy to forget the victims and glamorize the grifter.
The curator Sarah Meister on the distinct and meaningful response that war photography can provoke
The original is “a masterpiece … but it’s also a bit of a tough watch today.”
What followed an unprecedented moment of violence was almost as surreal as the incident itself.
A new HBO documentary portrays the actor Evan Rachel Wood’s attempts to get justice for alleged abuse.
By bringing the character back to his noir-detective origins, The Batman shows that comic-book movies can contain multitudes.
Pamela Adlon’s Better Things is a tribute to all the people who carry their families because no one else will.
The brutal sixth episode of Pam & Tommy should have audiences rethinking how culture treated the ’90s sex symbol.
Severance is an unsettling satire about never being able to leave the office.
“It’s this or porn, people.”
In The Girl Before, residents of an austere house are compelled to live according to its mysterious rules.