Latest Stories

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  In 1969, Stan Lee Told Angry Readers That Comics Must Stand Up for Civil Rights

  November 12 at 4:31 p.m.

  From Lee and Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko and John Romita and many more came the great flowering of ‘60s superheroes, the ones who seemed like human beings in ways that Superman or Batman didn’t

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  Lee Chang-dong’s Burning Torches Sex, Obsession and Class

  November 9 at 3:26 p.m.

  Lee Chang-dong’s dexterity with the telling minutiae of human interactions ensures that Burning makes for an emotionally gripping film

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  Netflix’s Outlaw King Is Just Beardo vs. Beardo in Scotland’s Mud Pits

  November 9 at 3:15 p.m.

  One lord scowls with even more surliness than the rest: Chris Pine is Robert the Bruce, a Scot who will, eventually, declare himself king of his country and wage guerrilla war against Edward

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  The Girl in the Spider’s Web Reduces Its Heroine to a Meh James Bond

  November 8 at 5:59 p.m.

  By and large, this latest entry in Lisbeth’s adventures ... offers a drab genre piece that’s more like an attempt to establish a James Bond-like franchise for Lisbeth than a compelling exploration of the character

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  Melissa McCarthy’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? Lets Fascinating Forger Off the Hook

  November 7 at 12:21 p.m.

  The more prickly and belligerent Israel becomes — and McCarthy never burdens her with likability — the more Holofcener and Whitty soften her choices with extenuating circumstances, imbuing their subject with a zeal for artistic purity at odds with her actions

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  The Teen Witch Meets Satan in Netflix’s Bloody Good Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

  November 7 at 12:17 p.m.

  ... This new Sabrina dives headlong into the dark, weird truths that smart kids — and alarmed evangelicals — always assumed ruled the life of America’s favorite teenage witch, her sorcerous aunts and her black-cat familiar