Drama

The Devil Wears Prada 2 — The Magazine Is Dying, and Miranda Doesn’t Know What She’s For

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  Somewhere in The Devil Wears Prada 2, Miranda Priestly picks up her own September issue, the object the entire fashion calendar once bent itself around, and remarks that it has gotten thin enough to floss with. The line is played for a laugh. It is the truest sentence in the film. Twenty years ago … Read more

In the Hand of Dante — Oscar Isaac Is Both the Thief and the Poet in Julian Schnabel’s Wild Swing

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  Some movies are content to tell you a story. In the Hand of Dante wants to grab you by the collar and drag you across seven centuries. Julian Schnabel’s new film, which played at Venice last fall and arrived on Netflix on June 24 after a brief run in theaters, is a literary heist, … Read more

One Battle After Another — Paul Thomas Anderson’s Best Picture Winner Lands on Prime Video

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 Paul Thomas Anderson has spent thirty years making films that critics revere and casual audiences quietly avoid. One Battle After Another is the one that broke through. It swept the 2026 Academy Awards with six wins, including Best Picture and, at long last, a first Oscar for Anderson himself. Now that it has arrived on … Read more