Film
A Meta Remake-of-a-Remake Muses on the State of Cinema
Stuffed with references to historical and contemporary film, Olivier Assayas’s miniseries version of his own 1996 film Irma Vep is sometimes too clever for its own good.
Alicia Vikander
Opinion
The Missed Queerness of The Green Knight Adaptation
Instead of anachronistic models that already reassert themselves in modern society, we should be able to see on the big screen just how badass, freethinking, and intercultural the premodern world really was.
Film
A 700-Year-Old Poem Becomes an Existential Modern Fantasy Film
The Green Knight adapts a Middle English chivalric romance of King Arthur’s court as a somber, allegorical adventure.
Art
The Casual Colonialism of Lara Croft and Indiana Jones
An anthropologist and a historian weigh in on the troubling genre of the archaeological adventure story.