Adam Nayman

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  • May 4, 2026
    In The Devil Wears Prada 2, we catch up with Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) while she’s on her way to the podium to accept an award for her work as an investigative journalist at a...
  • Apr 27, 2026
    The 32-foot-tall replicas of a defiant, bandolier-clad Michael Jackson commissioned to promote his 1995 double album, HIStory, were thought up by their subject, an imperial edict...
  • Apr 7, 2026
    Films don’t come much more self-consciously provocative than Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama. It’s a cautionary tale about the power of...
  • Mar 9, 2026
    Early on in The Bride!, a bulbous, lumbering figure (Christian Bale) who is calling himself Dr. Frankenstein but is pretty obviously the late physician’s creation pays a visit...
  • Feb 18, 2026
    The quotation marks around the title of Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights are a copy editor’s nightmare, and a savvy filmmaker’s idea of a gimmick, or maybe...
  • Jan 20, 2026
    “Matters of great concern should be treated lightly,” intones the eponymous hero of Jim Jarmusch’s sublime Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, about a New York City...