arts in review

‘Dear Evan Hansen,” the screen version of the acclaimed Broadway musical, draws its dramatic energy from the anguish of its young hero, a high-school senior who suffers from a…

As the director and star of “Cry Macho,” in theaters and on HBO Max, Clint Eastwood sends himself on a picaresque journey through rural Mexico in 1979. He plays Mike Milo, a…

Peter the Great took four bottles to bed with him each night. Alexander II was so paranoid that the company Roederer had to create its transparent bottle, so the czar…

The good news about the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect” is that its star, Jennifer Hudson—whose voice is usually the musical version of the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team…

On Spotify there’s a user-created playlist called “The Great Jack Antonoff Collection,” which gathers songs the 37-year-old songwriter-musician—best known for his work…

Electronic music duo Darkside sounds very of-this-moment, but its roots can be traced back for at least a half-century. The band comprises 31-year-old Nicolás Jaar…

A savvy send-up of classic Broadway, “Schmigadoon!” is probably the best time one can have with one’s TV at the moment. But it also solves the “problem” of musicals…

Early in Morgan Neville’s enthralling and unsettling “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, ” a documentary feature playing…

About 4,500 years ago, an image of the Sumerian storm god Ningirsu was engraved on a silver vessel now on view in the Getty Villa Museum exhibition “Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins.” He is,…

Every time “Out of Sight” turns up on TV I’m hooked once again. Whatever I’m doing must stop while I watch at least a few minutes of Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 comedy of interstate…