Richard Brody’s Best Movies of 2024 So Far
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The Writing on Joe Biden’s Face at the Presidential Debate
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The next-day freakout, livid as the most regrettable hangover, over President Joe Biden’s performance in Thursday night’s debate, has largely focussed, understandably, on words. Too many times, Biden’s sentences meandered outward…
The Man Who Could Paint Loneliness
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Heinrich von Kleist, the German writer, once said that looking at a seascape by Caspar David Friedrich was like having your eyelids cut off. You were staring directly at death, at…
A Little Bit of Everything at Lincoln Center’s “Summer for the City”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Marina HarssHarss has written about dance for Goings On since 2004. You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up…
“Music” Gives the Tragedy of Oedipus an Elusive but Hypnotic Retelling
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the opening moments of “Music,” the tenth feature film from the German writer and director Angela Schanelec, thunder claps, wind whistles, and a heavy fog rolls across a mountainous landscape,…
Family Bonds Protect a Trans Teen in Texas
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Love to the Max.” One day in late February of 2022, Amber Briggle received a phone call from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. It was a caseworker,…
“Janet Planet”: Melt the Icebergs
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s some quietly ferocious, fiercely expressive dialogue in the playwright Annie Baker’s first feature, “Janet Planet,” and several moments of imaginative sublimity. The movie is a passionate and finely nuanced view…
The Unfiltered Charm of Jet’s Beauties of the Week
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At any point in the day, I can open my closet, pull out a swimsuit, squeeze into it, pose for a selfie in my full-length mirror, and broadcast the image to…
The Right Side of Now
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The notion of having to one day repent for one’s trespasses gives even the godless a fright, we assume. A kicker like “You’ll regret this!” is redoubled by the certitude of…
Klaas Verplancke’s “Chilling”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story No matter where we live, we all have to find ways to cope with increasing disruptions in weather patterns, including intense heat waves. For the cover of the July 1, 2024,…
