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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a recent evening, my children and I were watching “The Iron Giant,” the animated cult classic about a robot from outer space who, in 1957, crash-lands in the woods outside…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Iranian cinema has risen to international prominence in recent decades, largely through the meticulous realism of such directors as Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi, who probe ordinary people’s lives in passionate…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story If the Oscars are meant to display the film industry’s ideal image of itself, the choice of “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Barbie” among the year’s best movies is evidence…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It was the biggest hit of the summer. Then it was the biggest hit of the year. It was a blockbuster so gigantic—crowd-pleasing, artful, a triumph for its young director—that it…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The 2024 Oscar nominations were announced Tuesday morning, including two nods for films released by The New Yorker. Representing the magazine in the Best Documentary Short Film category will be “The…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story From afar, Green Day doesn’t seem too hard to figure out—for decades, the band has been reliably churning out chunky, three-chord earworms about jerking off, being bored, growing up, getting wasted,…

State of the Union: A recent lawsuit against Texas State University highlights the importance of defending free speech across the nation.  Photo by Nick Schnelle for The Washington Post via Getty Images Texas State University has recently come under scrutiny…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Roz Chast chose to portray a chicken in a bath for the January 29, 2024, cover for a very simple reason: she likes birds. She also happens to be quite a…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Richard Brody, whose writing about movies runs under the rubric The Front Row, never ceases to surprise me, and enlighten me, with his critical judgment. Like another colleague, Anthony Lane, he…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the opening pages of “Private Equity,” a memoir about working in high finance in the early twenty-tens, the author, Carrie Sun, is asked in a job interview why she wants…