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The Ending of ‘Speak No Evil’ and the Perils of Remakes. The 2022 original retains its chilling power thanks to a worldview that the new version seems unwilling to embrace. By Alissa Wilkinson...
38 minutes ago · The joke’s on us. Joaquin Phoenix (behind bars) as Joker, and Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn nuzzle in a scene from “Joker: Folie à Deux.”. Niko Tavernise/Warner Bros. Pictures. ‘Joker: Folie ...
1 day ago · Alissa Wilkinson is a Times movie critic. She’s been writing about movies since 2005. More about Alissa Wilkinson. ... Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: ...
That said, aside from the Times 😀 I tend to rely on the reviews linked at Metacritic, which is more selective and granular about who it aggregates. There are also great specialty publications, like Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and Screen Slate (and tons more) that are worth reading!
Alissa Wilkinson is a movie critic at the New York Times. Her book We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine, a cultural history of American myth-making in Hollywood through the life and work of Joan Didion, is forthcoming from Liveright in early 2025.
Nov 8, 2023 · In her reviews of everything from blockbusters to art-house cinema, Alissa has brought a discerning eye, an appealing tone and a knack for finding surprising angles that illuminate the ideas that animate films, and tell us something new about Hollywood or the world.
I joined The New York Times as a staff movie critic in November 2023, and all of my articles live here. Before that, I was a senior correspondent at Vox (full archive here).
