Girls Can Play

A master of side-eye, Aubrey Plaza became, in her own words, “a poster child for irony” for playing such worldly, antiauthoritar...

After a long but largely uncelebrated career that consisted mainly of minor roles as moms and authority figures in such films as...

“Server Error,” the season-four finale of Silicon Valley , checks in with almost all the main characters in Pied Piper's or...

Kumail Nanjiani was following a well-trodden path when he came to the United States from Karachi for college, majoring in computer...

The Pied Piper team’s slow-boiling crisis of faith in Richard’s (Thomas Middleditch) leadership, which has been coming...

Eager to pass on his hard-won wisdom, whether anyone wants it or not, Richard (Thomas Middleditch) tells Keenan Feldspar (Haley...

On Silicon Valley , good things come to those who do nothing in particular, and what appears at first to be a stroke of good lu...

Tonight's episode of Silicon Valley starts with the Pied Piper team squirming under the imperious glare of their last inve...

Tonight’s episode probes the disconnect between worthiness and success in a world where sizzle almost always trumps substance. ...

Taking up where “Intellectual Property” left off, tonight's episode of Silicon Valley opens on Richard (Thomas Middleditch...

Much as Americans love reality television, we tend to shun documentaries, especially issue-based ones, probably because many of...

After he acted with Diane Lane in her first film, 1979's A Little Romance , Laurence Olivier called the then-14-year-old “the ...

Tonight's episode of Silicon Valley takes a satiric look at some of the ways that the all-important yet elusive concept of...

The son of avant-garde pioneers Ken and Flo Jacobs, Azazel Jacobs has the most conventional career in his family. He's still f...

In this week's episode of Silicon Valley , Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani) takes about a minute to transition from underdog to ove...

Thanks in part to his hard body, soft eyes, and a formerly broken nose that gives him almost as distinctive a profile as Javier Ba...

When Mae (Emma Watson) gets a chance to work at The Circle, a fictional tech behemoth, she's so thrilled at the t...

Richard (Thomas Middleditch) bumbles his way to an unlikely victory at the start of the season premiere of Silicon Valley , posin...

There's no dialogue in Julian Rosenfeldt's Manifesto , just recitations of manifestos about art—plus the excerpt from Karl...

Skipping lightly across the surface of relationships and individual states of mind to focus on the stockpiling of weapons or the ...

Aside from the armored walker that Rick (Andrew Lincoln) fought in the junkyard where Jadis's people live, it's been mont...

Throughout six years on Girls , a dozen years' worth of indie films before that, and the run of sometimes higher-profile films...

The absence of dialogue in the scenes before the opening credits of this week's episode, “The Other Side,” makes Maggie (Laur...

Dustin Guy Defa's Person to Person started as a short film by the same name, a pungently detailed portrait of a certain sl...

In Happy Times Will Come Soon , Alessandro Comodin tries to work out a new filmic vocabulary that merges realistic fiction with f...

Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s Sexy Durga generates a steady thrum of dread that builds to cringe-inducing levels as it follows a...

With “Bury Me Here,” The Walking Dead snaps back to its default position for this season, focusing on how Rick's group and t...

When Orphan Black debuted in 2013, Tatiana Maslany burst into critical consciousness, like a circus performer leaping through a c...

A lot happens in “Say Yes,” almost all of it compelling. Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh) insists that Rick and his crew bring her even...

As the bass-heavy, dance club-lit dream that opens writer-director Geremy Jaspers's Patti Cake$ makes clear, Patricia Dombrowsk...

The gods must have heard my prayer. Tonight's episode of The Walking Dead , “Hostiles and Calamities,” takes a break from the...

Rick (Andrew Lincoln) is still uncharacteristically happy in “New Best Friend,” thanks to the group that he ran into at the end o...

If The Walking Dead were a boxer, it'd be hit-like-a-hammer George Foreman, not float-like-a-butterfly Muhammed Ali, so the ...

The rest of television has caught up so fast with  Girls  that it's hard to remember how refreshingly truthful and  new  the ...

Somewhere around the year 2000, Robert De Niro's appearance in a film stopped being a sign of promise and became a flashing y...

Like many great writer-directors, Asghar Farhadi has spent most of his career ringing variations on a theme: In a classic Farha...

Matthew Ornstein's Accidental Courtesy aims straight at the heart of the post-election debate over how to deal with the ...

Acknowledging the influence of Fellini on his work and name-checking conceptual artists like Hans Haacke in his soft California dr...

This season's start was as bleak as any in The Walking Dead 's history, but the show's midseason finale closed on a m...

Director Theodore Melfi's Hidden Figures sheds light on a little-known corner of history by outlining the stories of Kather...

Here's my top 10 list for the year... Fire at Sea The Handmaiden O.J. Made in America Moonlight Happy Hour Manchester by the Sea ...

The quietly intense Fire at Sea captures life and death on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, which serves as a crucial ways...

Michael Keaton has used his jittery intensity to play sympathetic villains in the past, in films such as Beetlejuice and Despera...

Ah, Bojack. Will you ever learn how to get out of your own way? To tell you the truth, I kind of hope not, much as I want that for you, sinc...

We got to know the Pfeffermans a little better this season as they learned more about themselves, making two-steps-forward-one-step-back pro...

Twenty-one years after the O.J. Simpson trial surfaced a racial divide that came as news to many white people, America is once again grappli...

  The penultimate season of Girls was one of the show’s strongest, as the creators behind this often comic, always insightful exploration o...

Like its title character, sweet-natured, straight-shooting romance novelist wannabe Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez), Jane the Virgin has a...

After a night on the town, Yorkshire police sergeant Catherine Cawood’s (Sarah Lancashire) protégée, Ann Gallagher (Charlie Murphy), drunken...

TV (including serial shows on platforms like Netflix and Hulu and Amazon) has been nipping at the heels of theatrical feature films for a wh...

The Hitchockian opening scene of tonight's episode of The Walking Dead, “Sing Me a Song,” makes clever use of Michonne'...

The beginning of “Swear” echoes the ending of “Go Getters,” in which Jesus and Carl exchanged a long look in the back of the Savi...