The New Midlife Crisis

The New Midlife Crisis

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The Year of the Broken Mirror

Many of this year’s most talked-about releases were, in some sense, diagnostic: from Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” to Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” films offered up assessments of the nation’s ills. On this episode of Critics at Large, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry ...  Show more

“Wake Up Dead Man” and the Whodunnit Renaissance

We all know the formula: it begins with a dead body, and quickly introduces a motley crew of outlandish characters, each with a motive for murder. The whodunnit genre has been a cultural fixture since the days of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie—the latter of whom has been ...  Show more

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