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Emilia Pérez States Its Case Right Away

The film's impressive opening number drops you into a world of corruption and chaos.

WHEN KYLIE JENNER WRITES A NOVEL

Celebrities occasionally like to try their hand at fiction. But who’s really the author?

Emily Watson Is in Charge

The double Oscar nominee grew up in a cultlike organization. Acting became her way out of it.

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Everyone's Eating at Bridges

Manhattan's hottest restaurant doesn't play it safe.

Upstairs From His Favorite Italian Restaurant

Ryan Lawson designs other people’s places differently from how he did his own Village apartment.

165 MINUTES WITH...Mike and Kiki Tyson

After a near-death experience, the boxer is preparing, his wife by his side, for his big fight against Jake Paul.

Neighborhood News: Attention, Satmar Shoppers

At Williamsburg's W Mall, a milchig food court and refuge for weary mothers.

ELECTION FRIGHT

A city on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

WATCH THE THRONE

Kehinde Wiley built an empire out of painting young Black men into art history. Can it survive accusations of sexual assault?

The Rise of the Climate Anti-Hero

Soup on a van Gogh may be more strategic than it seems.

THE Hollywood REPORTER

How the GLEEFULLY UNSCRUPULOUS BEN MEZRICH became one of the most BANKABLE WRITERS in the business.

Early and Often: David Freedlander - Momentum vs. Machine The Trump and Harris campaigns battle it out for every last vote.

WIth two weeks left to go, the contours of the 2024 presidential election are clear: Both campaigns need voters who usually don’t vote, and Kamala Harris needs to bring the Democratic coalition, including its Trump-curious members, back home.While the Republican side plans to spend the remaining days of the contest trying to lure low-propensity voters to the polls, the Harris team will attempt to persuade voters of color to return to its side and will try to increase numbers among white voters in previously red suburbs.

Drowning in Slop - A thriving underground economy is clogging the internet with AI garbage-and it's only going to get worse.

SLOP started seeping into Neil Clarke's life in late 2022. Something strange was happening at Clarkesworld, the magazine. Clarke had founded in 2006 and built into a pillar of the world of speculative fiction. Submissions were increasing rapidly, but “there was something off about them,” he told me recently. He summarized a typical example: “Usually, it begins with the phrase ‘In the year 2250-something’ and then it goes on to say the Earth’s environment is in collapse and there are only three scientists who can save us. Then it describes them in great detail, each one with its own paragraph. And then—they’ve solved it! You know, it skips a major plot element, and the final scene is a celebration out of the ending of Star Wars.” Clarke said he had received “dozens of this story in various incarnations.”

The City Politic- The Other Eric Adams Scandal The NYPD shot a fare evader, a cop, and two bystanders. He defends it.

On Sunday, September 15, Derell Mickles hopped a turnstile, got asked to leave by cops, then entered the subway again ten minutes later through an emergency exit. This was at the Sutter Avenue L station, out by his mother's house, five stops from the end of the line. Police said they noticed he was holding a folded knife. They followed him up the stairs to the elevated train, asking him 38 times to drop the weapon.

Can the Media Survive?

BIG TECH, Feckless Owners, CORD-CUTTERS, RESTIVE STAFF, Smaller Audiences ... and the Return of PRINT?

Status Update

Hannah Gadsby's fascinatingly untidy tour through life after fame and death.

A Matter of Perspective

A Matter of Perspective Steve McQueen's worst film is still a solid WWII drama.

Creator, Destroyer

A retrospective reveals an architect's vision, optimism, and supreme arrogance.

In Praise of Bad Readers

In a time of war, there is a danger in surveying the world as if it were a novel.

Trust the Kieran Culkin Process

First, he nearly dropped out of Oscar hopeful A Real Pain. Then he convinced Jesse Eisenberg to change the way he directs.

The Funniest Vampires on TV

What We Do in the Shadows is coming to an end. Its idiosyncratic brand of comedy may be too.

The Water-Tower Penthouse

Gigi Loizzo and Angel Molina's apartment on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx looks out on Yankee Stadium.

The Nobu You Don't Know

As he celebrates his downtown restaurant's 30th anniversary, Nobu Matsuhisa discusses the disaster and depression that nearly ended his career before it began.

New 'American'

Radio Kwara is a mission statement masquerading as a neighborhood tavern.

Getting Around: Christopher Bonanos

A Whole New Fifth Avenue And it's about time.

780 MINUTES WITH ...Tim Walz

How the vice-presidential candidate cuts through the miasma of Democratic panic.

Inside the Patriot Wing - January 6 rioters are running their jail block like a gang. They're leaving more adicalized than ever

Early in the evening of July 13 in an isolated cell block of the D.C. Jail, about two miles east of the Capitol Building, a dozen detainees charged with some of the most violent crimes committed on January 6, 2021, were participating in a thousand-burpee challenge. The group made up roughly half of the inmates held in the block, a special unit sequestered from the jail’s other prisoners and known to its residents as “the Patriot Wing.” The challenge was in honor of a former resident of the unit, a fitness evangelist, who had recently been transferred out to serve a five-year prison sentence for attacking police officers with a floor lamp, a shoe, a nightstick, and a spiked club made from a broken table leg and nails.

A Body of Horrors - How The Substance turned Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley into one of the year's best movie monsters.

Coralie Fargeat's outré satire about modern beauty standards is a cautionary tale and 2024's wildest psychodrama, in which Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley slowly transform into a modern Frankensteined wonder. When Elisabeth Sparkle (Moore), a 50-year-old actress turned TV fitness instructor, is fired by a network executive who deems her too old, she makes a Faustian bargain, injecting herself with neon-green plasma that lets her live every other week as a sexy, spotless 20-something named Sue (Qualley). But each time Sue overstays her welcome, parts of Elisabeth's body age at punishing rates. Soon enough, she will become Monstro Elisasue, a distorted ogress who looks like Anjelica Huston in The Witches, if that movie had been 17 times more sinister.

Theater - Artificial Theatrics - Ayad Akhtar's play about AI is missing a human touch.

Here's an ai prompt: Write me a vehicle for a movie star intent on making a debut on Broadway. Let's say he's a veteran of superhero flicks, so we want a character akin to his persona and a subject that comes with some contemporary relevance; maybe, because he played a tech genius onscreen, we have him wrestle with the vanguard of technology onstage. He's also acclaimed as a dramatic actor, so let's throw in a few hefty themes: addiction, suicide, adultery, trauma, and, for that genuine flawed great man zing, a pinch of misogyny.

Boy Meets World - Actor Mark Eydelshteyn's first English-speaking role is a vape-smoking, frenzied son of a billionaire in Sean Baker's fairy tale gone wrong.

Mark eydelshteyn and I are in a car zooming down a mountain road on the first day of the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. The young actor sits in front, while I’m in the back with two of the film’s publicists. His eyes light up as the driver informs him that his seat has a massager; he can’t believe such a thing exists. A few minutes later, he exclaims, “Guys, it really works! Let’s stop in a few minutes and change seats so you can try it out.” ¶ About half an hour later, as we settle in for our conversation in a restaurant with a dramatic view of the valley below, his buoyant mood has changed somewhat. He looks at me and asks quietly, “In your eyes, who am I?” ¶ Even stranger is what he says next: “I’m nothing.”