When it came time to choose a name for our first child, my husband and I had a list of one. A couple of years before her birth, we’d been on an especially good date to see an Agnès Varda film in repertory; the protagonist’s style, wit and ultimate resilience appealed to us as much […]

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “VII,” the finale of “Disclaimer,” now streaming on Apple TV+. The final beats of “Disclaimer” utterly upend what had come before. Up to this point, we’re given to believe that Stephen (Kevin Kline) is on a misguided but fundamentally fact-based mission to avenge the death of his son, […]

The tricky things about defining moments is that they’re only clear in retrospect. Partisans of Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s election might, before the outcome became suddenly and crushingly clear on Tuesday night, have thought the campaign was defined by her romp over former President Trump in their one debate together, or by […]