Kyle Smith

Diana Prince returns in a cinematic can of processed corporate sludge.

Her dissertation is not an addition to the sum total of human knowledge.

An outlandishly entertaining documentary about the Pogues singer-songwriter.

A victorious Biden would be placed in the humiliating position of a largely ceremonial president.

Remember live performance? The story of the making of The Mikado illuminates the magic of theater in the delightful Topsy-Turvy.

Zippy, smart, fun . . . but smarmy, cutesy and fake. Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 makes the case for and against its creator.

Eddie Van Halen pushed away rock’s pretentious revolutionaries and said, “Let’s party.” Preferably naked.

Policy matters more than personality. But Trump’s horrible personality is going to leave us beholden to Biden’s horrible policy.

You have 30 seconds. So don’t think. Feel.

Great atmospherics, but the plot is missing.

Far from appeasing the hashtag activists, the Oscars have merely announced that its quota wars have begun.

Christopher Nolan’s latest is a big, bold, bracing blast of blockbuster.

In a scintillating new documentary, Barbara Kopple tells the story of Operation Eagle Claw, which helped doom Jimmy Carter’s presidency.

Making someone as extreme as Kamala Harris a president-in-waiting is a bone-chilling prospect. No conservative or moderate should support it.

An American Pickle, Seth Rogen’s time-travel comedy, is hilarious and touching.

A public service — and smashing great read — for twentysomethings and others.

folklore risks putting Swift’s fans to sleep.

After half a summer of relentless propagandizing, 29 percent opposition to the Redskins name is as much as the PC troops can rally to their side.

Even in a Holocaust-adjacent movie, what’s the point of ramming home the same point in a hundred sickening ways?

The career of music producer David Foster shows it takes an iron hand to create Lite FM.

Saluting the mellow sound that signals all is right with the world.

Just five years ago, it was fine for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical to adore our now-problematic Founders.

Why Lawrence of Arabia holds up so well.

A famously truth-telling comedian promotes a false narrative about police killings.

We should confront our collective past rather than sweep it under the rug.

Lovably odd characters and the dry understatement of Bill Nighy spell success in Sometimes Always Never.

The leaders of the foundation felt a moral duty to speak out against racial injustice, and for this they were ridiculed, reviled, and sent packing.

A retracted study about hydroxychloroquine’s dangers is another sign of the publication’s political bias poisoning its medical reports.