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Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in "A Complete Unknown"

A Complete Unknown Misses the Elusive Genius of Bob Dylan

The biopic starring Timothée Chalamet is a star-is-born fable viewed with 20/20 hindsight and through rose-tinted glasses.

Adrien Brody as Laszlo Toth in The Brutalist

The Brutalist Pairs Modern Architecture and Postwar Trauma

The symbolism in Brady Corbet’s movie is heavier-handed than a fistful of concrete and steel.

Pedro Almodóvar’s Self-Indulgent Portrait of a Woman’s Last Days

Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore star in the film The Room Next Door.

Pedro Almodóvar’s Self-Indulgent Portrait of a Woman’s Last Days

Books & the Arts

Illustration of Joan Didion and Eve Babitz

Joan Didion, Eve Babitz, and the Biographer Who Missed the Point

Lili Anolik’s new book sets the two writers up as rivals. But they were never in competition.

Fatty Choi (Ronny Chieng) and Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang star in Hulu's new series “Interior Chinatown,” where a Chinatown waiter finds himself in a mystery.

Taika Waititi’s Open-Hearted Television Empire

From “What We Do in the Shadows” to “Interior Chinatown,” Waititi has a gift for making defiantly original, rambling, rollicking, freewheeling shows.