Miley Cyrus sings “Best of Both Worlds” like someone returning to a room she once escaped through the side door....

The most persuasive argument in Orangutan is vertical. Mark Linfield and Vanessa Berlowitz keep returning to the distance between the...

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Forty consecutive dates should make a city feel crowded; here, Houston keeps shrinking around one man. Andy Delaney’s 40 Dates...

Ayvalık has never been neutral in Another Self. The seaside town looks like refuge, with its warm light, old streets,...

Ba Sing Se turns refuge into etiquette. Nobody has to deny the war loudly when the city has already trained...

Childhood is rarely as private as adults imagine it to be. A child’s gestures are watched, corrected, praised, softened, misread,...

A thousand-foot table on a New Orleans levee is a blunt image, which is exactly why it works. Josh Fox’s...

A banana-yellow creature who cannot speak intelligibly is a perfect comic instrument for a story about silent cinema’s extinction. Minions...