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The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now
Sign up for our Watching newsletter to get recommendations on the best films and TV shows to stream and watch, delivered to your inbox. The sheer volume of films on Netflix — and the site’s less than ideal interface — can make finding a genuinely great movie there a difficult task. To help, we’ve plucked […]
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‘The Sandman’ Is Coming to TV. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal.
The styles change according to the dreamer. In one story featuring an aggressively normcore yuppie couple named Ken and Barbie, his dreams about money and sex are rendered in sharp, angular lines and black-and-green backgrounds, while her Narnia-esque escapist ones are depicted with soft, rounded lines and delicate yellows and pinks. When characters’ worlds get […]
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The Word of the Year Is ‘Uncertainty’
More than two years into Pandemic Times, technology is more popular, stronger and richer than it was before. Or is it? This year — and particularly the past few weeks — has complicated what was a fairly straightforward understanding of how most of the tech industry and America’s superstar digital companies were faring. Repeatedly over […]
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In ‘Uncoupled,’ Neil Patrick Harris Plays the Game
Neil Patrick Harris loves puzzles. He loves games. He has designed a single-player board game, Box One; he plays Wordle daily and consistently scores a 3. An accomplished magician, he delights in magic tricks. Every issue of his newsletter, Wondercade, comes with a riddle of one kind or another. His personality is fizz and bounce, […]
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Streaming Is Sadder Now
It may not yet be noticeable when we flop on the sofa and flip on Netflix, but the golden age of streaming entertainment might be over. We probably won’t like what happens next. Soon we might be paying more for fewer good options, feeling wistful about the olden days of limitless streaming binges, and sitting […]
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Netflix Loses Nearly 1 Million Subscribers and Breathes a Sigh of Relief
Disaster has been averted at Netflix. The streaming giant said in its earnings report on Tuesday that it lost nearly one million subscribers in the second quarter. That’s the largest subscriber defection in company history, but far short of the two million it forecast during its dismal first quarter report in April. When Netflix announced […]
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Netflix, Still Reeling, Bets Big on ‘The Gray Man’
Anthony and Joe Russo like to go big. In 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” the directing brothers shocked fans when they erased half the global population and allowed their Marvel superheroes to fail. The next year, they raised the stakes with the three-hour “Avengers: Endgame,” a film that made $2.79 billion at the global box office, […]
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With ‘How to Change Your Mind,’ Taking a Trip With Michael Pollan
In late 2012, the best-selling author and journalist Michael Pollan (“The Omnivore’s Dilemma”) was at a dinner party in Berkeley, Calif. Among his fellow diners was a prominent developmental psychiatrist, in her 60s, who spoke at some length about a recent LSD trip. This pricked up Pollan’s ears. His first thought, as he shared during […]
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Netflix Says It’s Business as Usual. Is That Good Enough?
While being honored at the Banff Film Festival in Canada in early June, Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s head of global television, surprised some with what she didn’t say. Despite the recent turmoil at the streaming giant — including a loss of subscribers, hundreds of job cuts and a precipitous stock drop — she said Netflix was […]
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