The 2016 Oscars

New York Review contributors on films nominated for the 2016 Academy Awards

Zadie Smith

Windows on the Will

Human needs, Schopenhauer thought, are not in their essence complex.

April 27, 2024 issue

Adam Shatz

The Fierce Courage of Nina Simone

She did not so much interpret songs as take possession of them

April 27, 2024 issue

Christian Caryl

The Force of Nostalgia

April 27, 2024 issue

Garry Wills

Complicity in Boston

Spotlight, in telling the 2002 story of The Boston Globe‘s exposure of the Cardinal Law’s protection of priests who sexually preyed on children, complicates the regular clichés of investigative reporting stories.

January 15, 2016

Christopher Benfey

Bearman

Despite its historical underpinnings, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant is actually a dream-film throughout.

January 7, 2016

Francine Prose

Love Is the Plot

The book on which Todd Haynes’s film Carol is based is the only Patricia Highsmith novel in which her protagonist is ensnared, obsessed, and ultimately freed not by murder or paranoia but by the equally risky and suspenseful awakening of love.

December 11, 2015

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