Alpha Review: Alia Bhatt Swings Between Ballistic And Bored In Lazy Spy Actioner

The YRF spy franchise bends the knee to thinly disguised anti-Pak propaganda amidst a grand, hollow bid for women to take the wheel.
Observer

In Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland,’ Thomas Mann’s Divided Germany Is a Study of Artistic Compromise and Family Rupture

Set in 1949 and starring Sandra Hüller as Thomas Mann’s daughter, the Best Director winner at Cannes reckons with the cost of holding onto one’s convictions in a world choosing sides.
Opinion

Britain’s apology for the scandal of forced adoption won’t – on its own – heal the wounds of survivors like me

An estimated 185,000 babies were taken from unmarried mothers in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976. I was one of them, says Guardian news editor and writer David Batty ...
The New York Times

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

Conversations about the culture that moves us – the good, the bad and whatever’s in between. Every week, critic Wesley Morris talks with writers, artists and his friends about the moment we’re in.