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Jon Stewart resumes The Daily Show to send dispatches from a past America. To the delight of dozens, Jon Stewart is returning to late-night TV. On January 24, the news broke that the liberal television icon would be coming home…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “The Curse” is set in the New Mexico desert, where newly married couple Asher (Nathan Fielder) and Whitney (Emma Stone) Siegel have declared themselves pioneers in a new frontier: ethical gentrification.…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Rachel SymeStaff 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. In 1966,…

The youth mental health crisis feeds itself. Credit: Stock Rocket Young adults are anxious, and Common Sense Media has fresh statistics to prove it. (Not that anyone who knows an adolescent or two needed to be convinced.) What is it…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “How to Have Sex,” the first feature by the young British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker, is a far more substantial film than its clickbait title suggests. It’s a coming-of-age story centered…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There are certain images that slither past good taste and politics and sink their teeth straight into the subconscious. For instance: a man dressed in a tuxedo and a Ronald Reagan…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story According to Hegel, the slow march of human civilization was intermittently disrupted and shifted by “Heroes,” singular figures “whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit,” as he…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “We wrote the part with Richard in mind,” Max Cohn said, referring to the father in “Proof of Concept.” Chloe, a young filmmaker, is tagging along with her father, Robert, and…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the spring of 2020, Terence Reilly left his position as the chief marketing officer of Crocs, the footwear brand, and became the president of the beverage-container manufacturer Stanley. For Stanley,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This year’s edition of Sundance concluded yesterday, and, though I saw some films of great merit there, I also found myself thinking about the peculiar cinematic economy that the festival fosters.…