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‘Challengers’ Review: Game, Set, Love Matches
Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist play friends, lovers and foes on and off the tennis court in Luca Guadagnino’s latest.
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CreditNiko Tavernise/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Amazon ‘Challengers’ Stars Put New Spins (and Slices and Volleys) on the Love Triangle
Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, who play three entangled tennis pros, and their director, Luca Guadagnino, talk about ambition, jealousy and the “erotic amusement” of their new movie.
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CreditChantal Anderson for The New York Times Maurizio Cattelan’s Got a Gun Show
From bananas as art to bullet-riddled panels: The Italian artist, in a rare in-person interview, tells why he turned his sardonic gaze on a violence-filled world.
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CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times Review: Steve Carell as the 50-Year-Old Loser in a Comic ‘Uncle Vanya’
Sleek, lucid, amusing, often beautiful, it’s Chekhov with everything, except the main thing.
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‘Humane’ Review: An Ethical Crisis and a Dinner Party
Caitlin Cronenberg’s debut feature is set in a dystopian world that’s alarmingly believable.
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CreditSteve Wilkie/IFC Films/Shudder ‘Boy Kills World’ Review: A Wide-Eyed Assassin
Beefed up and bloodied, Bill Skarsgard goes mano a mano against disposable hordes in this dystopian action flick.
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CreditRoadside Attractions/Lionsgate Chicago Museum Says Investigators Have No Evidence Art Was Looted
In a court filing, the Art Institute of Chicago fought Manhattan prosecutors’ efforts to seize an important Egon Schiele drawing, denying that the Nazis had stolen it.
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CreditArt Institute of Chicago Is New York Improv Back? I Went on a One-Week Binge to Find Out.
The pandemic dealt a major blow to the once-thriving comedy form, but a new energy can be seen in performances throughout the city.
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CreditCarlos Perez On ComedyThe Venice Biennale and the Art of Turning Backward
Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim?
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Long-Lost Klimt Painting Sells for $37 Million at Auction
The portrait was left unfinished in the painter’s studio when he died, and questions persist over the identity of the subject and what happened to the painting during Nazi rule in Austria.
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Creditvia im Kinsky ‘Mary Jane’ Review: When Parenting Means Intensive Care
Amy Herzog’s heartbreaker arrives on Broadway with Rachel McAdams as the alarmingly upbeat mother of a fearfully sick child.
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CreditRichard Termine for The New York Times Critic’s PickHow a Virtual Assistant Taught Me to Appreciate Busywork
A new category of apps promises to relieve parents of drudgery, with an assist from A.I. But a family’s grunt work is more human, and valuable, than it seems.
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CreditCari Vander Yacht Critic’s NotebookVehicle Crash That Injured Film Crew Was Caught on Video
The collision on the set of “The Pickup” is under investigation. Video shows an armored truck and an S.U.V. veering off a road before the truck flips onto the smaller vehicle.
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Credit Review: Noche Flamenca, Raising the Dead With Goya
In “Searching for Goya,” at the Joyce Theater, the troupe uses the painter’s images as frames for flamenco dances.
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Michael Cuscuna, Who Unearthed Hidden Jazz Gems, Dies at 75
Possibly the most prolific archival record producer in history, he was a founder of the Mosaic label, which became the gold standard of jazz reissues.
By Giovanni Russonello
Anthony Roth Costanzo, Star Countertenor, to Lead Opera Philadelphia
Costanzo will be a rare figure in classical music: an artist in his prime who is also working as an administrator.
By Javier C. Hernández
Critic’s NotebookA Wanderer, Ravel and Suzanne Farrell: Life Is Good at City Ballet
The spring season at New York City Ballet opened with an all-Balanchine program and a vintage miniature from 1975: “Errante,” staged for a new generation.
By Gia Kourlas
Disney Scrapped Their Show. An Unlikely Champion Saved It.
Canceled by Disney before it even aired, “The Spiderwick Chronicles” found a new home at Roku and has so far “delivered results beyond expectations,” its creator said.
By Calum Marsh
Popcast (Deluxe): Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured’ Era
A discussion about the singer’s new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” her “imperial era,” rumored relationships and production choices.
An AppraisalHelen Vendler Believed Poetry Matters
She devoted her life to showing us how and why.
By A.O. Scott
styles group chat‘Challengers’: Normcore Clothes on Sweaty Bodies
Zendaya breaks hearts in a stylish tennis love triangle.
By The Styles Desk
Critic’s Pick‘Nowhere Special’ Review: Old Bonds, New Family
This understated tear-jerker sees a dying single father making future family plans for his toddler son.
By Glenn Kenny
‘Infested’ Review: Bugging Out
An apartment building in Paris is overrun by murderous arachnids and unsubtle allegory in this fleet and efficient debut feature.
By Jeannette Catsoulis
art reviewHow Postwar Paris Changed the Expat Artists
An exhibition at the Grey Art Museum explores the fervid postwar scene in Paris, where Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell and others learned lessons America couldn’t teach them.
By Karen Rosenberg
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