Kyle Smith

Director Christos Nikou’s surreal new movie, in which amnesia goes viral, has a memorable range of allegorical implications.

Democrats should think about moving on from January 6.

In a costume drama drawn from Balzac’s novel, a young poet works to ingratiate himself into the cutthroat society of French cultural writing.

Taylor Swift’s remarkable commencement speech urged young people to be grateful and fix themselves instead of the world.

Never mind that the New York Times has embraced the theory — sometimes even using the same word — for years.

It’s amusing the way nominally inflammatory accusations of misogyny and racism have now become a sort of elevator music to lefty writers.

DeSantis stomps on Mouse.

Catholics Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson step up for the church with the muscular and impassioned true story of Father Stu.

“Get vaccinated, then get on with your life,” should have been Fauci’s message from the start, except for small children, who were never at great risk in the first place.

The Academy Awards ceremony gets an overhaul that won’t fix its problems.

Political messaging can make for bad art—but also for masterpieces.

If Maus was ‘banned,’ then so was To Kill a Mockingbird.

It turns out that Joe Biden’s Secret Plan to End Covid worked about as well as when he promised to ‘cure cancer.’

Disney treated this as an event movie. What went wrong?

Jussie Smollett’s hate-hoax fairy tale did expose how gullible Americans can be when you yell ‘racism.’

Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg managed to hug while looking like they wished they were in two different time zones, just as their political fortunes are going in completely different directions.

Licorice Pizza proves that when the art-house auteur wants to, he can make (somewhat) conventional crowd-pleasers with the best of them.