What Was That Hug Really About?Like all the best parts of Succession, Kendall and Roman’s stitch-popping embrace in the series finale is open to interpretation.
ByRoxana Hadadi
endings
Succession Made You Decide“Who will win?” is a question as appealing and empty as Tom and Shiv’s apartment. The much harder one has always been “What kind of show is this?”
ByKathryn VanArendonk
movie review
Sydney Sweeney Is Unreally Great in RealityThe Euphoria star plays whistleblower Reality Winner in an HBO film that turns the actual FBI interrogation transcript into a thriller.
Takeshi Kitano Kills AgainSome directors’ late films are stripped-down, austere, deliberately paced; Kitano seems to be going in the opposite direction, god bless him.
Universes Collide in American Born ChineseThere’s a tender, vibrant coming-of-age story in Disney+’s new series, if you can find it beneath all the tiresome celestial conflict.
God’s Lonely Man Gets Laid AlreadyPaul Schrader’s Master Gardener plays less like a thematic finale and more like God’s lonely man finally got sick of his own company too.
Let’s Watch Some Nazis ExplodeIf Sergio Leone had directed Crank: High Voltage, it might have looked a little like Sisu, a crazy new action movie from Finland.
Polite Society Pulls Its PunchesNida Manzoor’s big-screen debut is an immigrant-family dramedy by way of a martial-arts movie, and it’s fun without being satisfying.
