Matthew Jacobs

The refurbished double-decker is now a tourist attraction and sometimes available for Airbnb rentals. Here’s how its eccentric original design came together.

The greatest nonfiction films cinema has to offer, from ‘Grey Gardens’ to ‘Grizzly Man’ and everything in between.

Bridget Everett and company preview the second season of their HBO cult favorite—a show that’s low-stakes in all the best ways.

The 31-year-old Belgian filmmaker tackles the “crisis of connection” among teen boys in his second film, now an international feature Oscar nominee.

“It’s a real privilege to make movies, but to make movies about your childhood heroes is a lifelong dream,” Durkin said while introducing the film at the Texas Theatre, an old-fashioned repertory cinema whose marquee announced, “Welcome to Von Erich Country.” Dallas proved an appropriate backdrop for The Iron Claw’s debut. Much of the crowd seemed familiar with the real-life Texas wrestlers at its center, applauding even louder for Kevin Von Erich than for stars like White, Zac Efron, Harris Dic…

The Von Erichs, the storied Texas family at the movie’s center, experienced so much misfortune that many people decided they were cursed. One after the other, five of the six Von Erich brothers—most of them talented wrestlers vying for a world championship title—died before age 35. Three of those deaths were suicides. The men’s unflappable manager-father (played by Mindhunter’s Holt McCallany) had drilled into them a hard-boiled philosophy: Victory should be their only priority. They didn’t know…

The 37-year-old director can handle minor hazards. Schoenbrun, who uses they/them pronouns, makes enigmatic art films that double as analogies about the transgender experience. Their debut narrative feature, 2022’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, was a restrained psychodrama about a lonely teenager who takes part in an online role-playing game said to distort participants’ bodies. It was strange and sullen, the sort of slow-burning indie that’s good for street cred but not commercial fanfar…

The final moments of I Saw the TV Glow hit like a gut punch. Sweet, anxious Owen (Justice Smith) emits an existential wail while facilitating a kid’s birthday party, after which he stumbles into a bathroom. Peering into the mirror, he slices open his chest to reveal the blue light of a TV screen. Then he seals himself back up and staggers through the noisy arcade where he works, apologizing over and over. But the customers can’t hear his sorries; they don’t even return his gaze. With a jolt, the…

The best true-crime documentaries bring principled reportage to the intrigue they chronicle, giving equal or greater weight to the victims as to the perpetrators whose psychology seizes our collective imagination. This list attempts to encapsulate the format’s varying modes, from serious digests to seedy diversions; although one person’s true-crime trash is another’s treasure, these recommendations steer clear of the genre’s tawdriest impulses. All of our picks are available to stream or rent so…

Yu’s debut feature, ‘Sleep,’ is a nail-biting horror movie with a dark sense of humor.